Ever since Satan tempted Eve, mankind has been fighting to hold upward God.
When I scroll through "Christian posts" on Pinterest or watch pop Christian websites, I'm regularly disappointed past times messages emphasizing our significance in addition to our desires instead of God's significance in addition to desires.
Unfortunately, it is a sign of our times equally to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than people are behaving similar neo-narcissists* who:
1. Boast close their gifts.
2. Refuse to confess mistakes in addition to won't confess sins.
3. Have no abide by for historic stream or experience.
4. Value externals to a greater extent than than character.
5. Blame-shift.
6. Compromise moral values.
But God is looking for people who:
1. "Boast" close knowing Him (Jeremiah 9:23-24).2. Listen to sense in addition to correction (Proverbs 15:32).
3. Honestly confess their sins (1 John 1:9).
4. Value graphic symbol (Galatians 5:16-17).
5. Take personal responsibility, repenting of sin (1 John 1:9-10).
6. Refuse to accommodate to our civilisation (Romans 12:2).
It's difficult to hold upward this sort of someone when surrounded past times neo-narcissists, exactly that's the sort of someone God is looking for in addition to the sort I wish to be.
How close you?
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* There's a broad gain of narcissism according to modern psychology - read to a greater extent than HERE. What I'm calling "neo-narcissism" is the increasingly prevalent selfishness inward our self-esteem culture.
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