It seems to be popular today to pick and choose Scripture of
what we want to believe. We are like those in a candy store picking out the
sweets. Not just any sweets but the ones we really like.
I like to feel good about myself. I want the feeling of joy
that I'm blessed and that God accepts me for who I am. I can find many Scriptures to make me feel
special in being who I am. Since I am wonderfully made then I must be
wonderful.
"I am fearfully and wonderfully made" Psalm
139:14.
Did you know I am royalty?
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an
holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him
who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light" 1 Peter 2:9
Since I am royalty then I deserve the best things in this
life, right? I am a king's kid and I deserve royal treatment.
How did you like the way I strung some Scripture together to
make me sound special? I took one facet of the gem of truth and made me deserving
of all kinds of self-importance. If I could pat myself on the back, I would.
I'm great and I know it.
Now let us balance out the Scripture. Many today in the
Church believe we should love ourselves. They say that if we love ourselves
then we can love others more perfectly. The feel good teaching puts a joy on
our face but not the joy of the Lord. Self-aggrandizement is not a godly
feature in a Christian. It takes away from true humility.
Let me blow your mind,
"He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that
hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal" John 12:25.
"No servant can serve two masters: for either he will
hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise
the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon" Luke 16:13.
Do you hate your life? I do. Do you hate sin? I do. Do you
love God? I do. I don't trust myself. I have been disappointed too many times
by my dumb behavior. I trust in God. I try daily to have more love for God then
any positive affirmation for myself. We cannot serve two masters. You cannot
serve yourself and expect to become a servant of Jesus Christ. To become a servant
of Jesus Christ you must do this one thing and do it well. This one thing is
death.
"I die daily" 1 Corinthians 15:31.
"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed
unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord" Romans 6:11
Do you want victory over sin in your life then become a
master of death. Die daily. Don't live for pleasure but live unto God as those
who are alive from the dead.
"Ye have lived
in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in
a day of slaughter" James 5:5.
Wanton means in the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance: to be
ruled by a physical desire.
We need to daily be ruled by Christ against our physical
desires. To really love God we should not love ourselves in which we constantly
yield to our own physical desires. We are to yield to God and resist our sinful
flesh.
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