🧭 “What If There Is Something Outside of Me?”

A Grace-Based Response to a Self-Centered Belief

I hear you when you say,

“There’s nothing outside of ourselves.”I’ve been there. It can feel comforting—empowering, even—to believe that everything I need, feel, or seek already lives inside me.

But if I’m being honest… I’ve also felt empty. I’ve reached inside myself and found confusion, fear, weakness, and even darkness. And if there’s nothing outside me, what do I do when inside me isn’t enough?

📖 What does the Word say?

“In Him we live and move and have our being.” – Acts 17:28“The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” – Psalm 14:1“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” – Jeremiah 17:9

If I were enough on my own…

• Why do I still long for more?

• Why do I hurt people I love?

• Why do I crave peace I can’t manufacture?

• Why do I fear death if I’m supposedly my source of life?

The truth is that I was never meant to be my god. There is something—and Someone—outside of me, yet He lovingly chose to dwell within me if I invited Him in.

That Someone is Jesus Christ.

💔 Grace Without Compromise:

If we live by the idea that “everything is inside us,”then we reject the very One who stands outside the door and knocks (Revelation 3:20).

We weren’t created to look only inward.We were made to look upward—to the God who made us, knows us, and loves us enough to correct us.

Closing Prayer

Lord, I’ve looked inside myself for answers. Sometimes I’ve found truth, but more often I’ve found need. Help me see what I cannot see on my own—that You are God, and I am not. Open my eyes to what’s beyond me, so I can receive what only You can give: peace, purpose, and eternal life. Amen.