Sunday, May 20, 2012

Grace for your spirit. May 21, 2012

Grace for your spirit
But realize this that in the last days difficult times will come. for men will be lovers of self....II Timothy 3:1-2

Loving ourselves would seem to be a good thing, but in fact in can be very destructive. Loving ourselves puts us in the center of all things, usually way ahead of God and everyone else. It is the cause of both high self esteem and low self esteem. It most certainly leads to the vast list of sins that follows in these verses. Loving money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, gossips, without self control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God. All that can come from a lover of self? The best esteem to have is Christ esteem. Make Him first in our lives, instead of holding just a form of godliness. It will help us get through the difficult days in this world.

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