It’s so easy to accept and minimize my “shortcomings” if I walk through the day without a thought about how I'm living, or without wondering if my actions are a big deal to God. So, before I greet one more day, I feel that I must personally look at the everyday things I call shortcomings and determine whether they are worth worrying about.
You may have your own list, but here are a few that I sometimes find myself struggling with. Pride, envy, and anger – guess that’s a good start!
So if I take each one and dissect it in the light of God’s word, His purity, and His holiness, it may help me to see whether it is serious enough to be too concerned about.
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from The Father but from the world.
1 Corinthians 12:4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant.
Galatians 5:21 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
As I look at these scriptures, it seems to attach envy to coveting the importance of others in the world’s eyes. That was a bit eye-opening to me.
And Finally Anger
Colossians 3:8 but now is the time to cast off and throw away all these rotten garments of anger, hatred, cursing, and dirty language.
Matt 5:21 “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. . .
So to net it out
Galatians 5:19-20 The acts of the flesh are obvious: debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy, , ,
God is Holy, Good, and Pure. I want to walk in His dust, and He is more than willing to walk with me and give me strength to follow.
Chronicles 16:9 The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.
- In pride I put myself in center stage – But the King humbled Himself by entering into our world.
- When I envy another’s situation, wealth, or status – I forget the family status given to me by the grantor of every good thing.
- When my anger causes me to sin, I forget that when Jesus spoke of anger in His sermons, He even covered it in His discussion about murder.
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