Hello everyone!
Let's continue on the Chapter 22. Wilderness mentality #7 "My life is so miserable; I feel sorry for myself because my life is so wretched." I look forward to reading your comments.
Have a Blessed week!
-L.Faith
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Well, I can relate to Joyce. For years I wanted my husband to treat me like a Princess; to think about me all day long (even though he had to earn a living), planning ways to treat me special, and be destitute if I was out of his sight for one minute. How outrageous and fanciful is that??!!
I got past that, thank the good Lord. But I have still struggled with self-pity from time to time. Mostly, it has to do with health issues. In my fantasy world, I expect to never have a health issue to deal with. I must get past this because struggles of every kind are used by God to teach us so much about life with Him.
I'm glad Joyce pointed out that the enemy uses our thoughts of self-pity to keep us in bondage. She goes on to say that self-pity is perverted because it takes something that God intended to be given to others (compassion) and turns it in on ourselves. In fact, self-pity is idolatry - self idolatry. Oh boy! I've got to work on this one.
Grandma Linda
Wow, I've been in this place before. Trying to prove how unhappy I am by doing everything loud and aggressive then ending up in the bathroom crying and sometimes watching myself cry. Praise God I haven't done that for a very long time but I have had moments of self pity. I've never looked at it as idolatry. YIKES! I will certainly be on alert now!
-L.Faith
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