Self-pity: "excessive, self-absorbed unhappiness over one's ain troubles." Sometimes I allow self-pity to accept accuse of my caput as well as heart. Not a practiced thing. Not a God thing. It's non that I don't direct maintain reasons to move disappointed as well as fifty-fifty discouraged. Paul said he was 1 time then discouraged he felt he couldn't larn on (2 Corinthians 1:8-10). That's when he turned it all over to the Lord. And went on. And that's what nosotros must create amongst self-pity. Self-pity is self-focused, self-indulgent, self-pandering, self-destructive. It's sin. We overcome it by: 1. Forgiving others (Matthew 6:14-15). 2. Denying ourselves (Luke 9:23). 3. Thinking of others (Philippians 2:3-4). 4. Dwelling on the positive (Philippians 4:8). 5. Remembering God uses bad for practiced (Romans 8:28). 6. Remembering God wants to comfort us inwards difficulty (2 Corinthians 1:3-7). 7. Moving on (Philippians 3:10-14). May the Lord assist us create these things whenever self-pity enters our hearts. We are able through His mighty power, to arrive at infinitely to a greater extent than than nosotros inquire or imagine (Ephesians 3:20). ------------------------- Why non add together to a greater extent than or less to a greater extent than of God's Word to your schedule past times having a 1-minute devotion similar this 1 delivered to your electronic mail each weekday. Sign upward for a gratis subscription to Bible Love Notes as well as larn a gratis e-booklet. Find out to a greater extent than HERE.
Self-pity is a prison theater cell. Recently a adult woman emailed to nation me I was a "fraud" together with my devotion “Open Wide Your Mouth” was a lie. In rude, angry, bitter words she listed her problems, insisting God doesn't answer prayer. I wrote back, told her I was sad close her difficulties, assured her God wanted to help, together with told her I’d pray for her. I every bit good told her she’d require to hand upwardly her anger together with bitterness to brand room for God's salvation together with comfort. When she replied amongst angry profanity, I realized she was quite committed to staying inwards her prison theater prison cellular telephone of self-pity. At times, I’ve chosen that prison theater cellular telephone myself. But it’s non mistreatment or difficulty that puts us there. Cells of self-pity are locked from the inside. The telephone substitution is e'er available together with bears this inscription: "Whoever wants to hold upwardly my disciple must deny themselves together with stimulate got upwardly their cross daily together with follow me" (Luke 9:23). Self-pity is self-imprisonment. Let's non instruct there! -------------- Today's Bite Size Bible Study on this devotion volition assistance you lot position the motility together with effects of self-pity together with thence you lot tin avoid it.
