![]() Meekness seems timid, shy, and unassertive. Meekness is associated with weakness, being a pushover, and spinelessness. That’s where meekness comes in.Ī lot of fluffy, nebulous, and/or lame definitions of meekness exist. It’s rooted in our sinful flesh, but it’s not supposed to stay there. The end product of all this is misery, disharmony, and death. Self-worship breeds arrogance, pride, hypocrisy, superficiality, jealousy, gossip, resentfulness, hatred, cruelty, and greed. Ironic, isn’t it, that relentlessly seeking your Self is the one thing that’s guaranteed to make you miserable, and probably hate your Self more and more. The worship of Self is a life-sucking endeavor. It’s exhausting! Self is an all-consuming god it demands constant service. It’s ingrained in us since birth.Īnd it’s a lot of work! We’re always striving to promote Self, to make Self look good, to defend Self against attack, both verbally and physically. However, Self is a god we all worship, often without knowing it. God commands us to have no gods before him, which we all heartily agree with. How many celebrity feuds over social media, videos, interviews, in person have we seen? It’s comical to witness, but we’re all guilty of the same thing. This same thing happens in adulthood, except more subtly. And he fought tooth and nail to ensure he got his due. “It’s not fair!” His ego, his Self-god, wasn’t honored, wasn’t given its proper due. One time he gave me more presents for Christmas than I gave him tears and tantrums erupted. If I got an extra couple minutes playing video games, my parents got an earful. Cake is cut, and if I got one crumb more, my brother was all over it. For example, my brother was the self-appointed Fairness Police in our house. Any insult or disrespect towards our Self is nothing short of a declaration of war. ![]() AW Tozer described this well in his book The Pursuit of God. You see, even from a young age, we set up our Self as a little god to be served and respected and defended. Like when there’s only one pair of your favorite shoes left on sale at the mall and you’re squared off with someone else who wants them. The problem arises when our own self-interest conflicts with another’s. We need to actively seek food, shelter, clothing, employment, community, etc. It’s completely natural, and it helps us survive in the natural world. In fact, all people are innately self-centered. There’s a lot of self-centeredness in the world.
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