In a culture teeming with self-absorption, entitlement, and a chronic preoccupation with looking out for “Number One,” nurturing selflessness and focusing on others is an increasingly difficult task, one diametrically opposed to the do-what-makes-you-happy mentality that defines the Millennial zeitgeist. Pour Me Out is a 30-day devotional with one specific mission: decrease our inherent sense of self-importance so Christ’s influence may increase and be glorified in our lives (John 3:3).

How do we empty our lives of spirit-stifling selfishness and fill ourselves with God-glorifying selflessness? Answering that question is what the 30 days of this book are all about. Author Diana Anderson-Tyler invites readers to journey with her toward a more selfless life, “pouring out” the vessels that weigh us down, from tiny tea cups trembling with fear and coffee pots percolating with pride, to kettles piping hot with judgement.

We will venture bravely across four distinct seas of selfishness: the Sea of Self-Effort, the Sea of Pride, the Sea of Fear, and the Sea of Condemnation. There will be days of smooth sailing during which we won’t feel the convicting winds of the Holy Spirit, but there will also be days, perhaps weeks, of rough waters; it is throughout these that we must ask the Lord to lighten our loads by revealing and releasing each unrighteous burden.