Our Self-Pity Doesn’t Help Us, Part 3 (TMF:2272)

Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Peace to Live By: Our Self-Pity Doesn’t Help Us, Part 3 (TMF:2272) - Daniel Litton
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       Let’s be honest, it can feel good to wallow in self-pity. The problem with that is that self-pity denies the truth. It denies what God has said about us. And by being pitiful, we cannot pursue happiness. We can’t be a victim and be happy at the same time. It is our Old Person, or what we might even call the ‘sin-nature,’ that delights in self-pity. Sure, we can sit around and say, “Life sucks. It’s horrible. See how I just got screwed in this situation. That’s just the way life works.” What the person doesn’t realize, though, is that thinking like this only breeds more thinking ‘like’ this. That is, it causes more negative thinking. And the more negative the thinking, the less the faith. The less the faith, the lesser God’s power flows in our lives. It’s just that simple. We were made to live happy lives, as Christians, but we cannot have any claim to that happiness while clinging to the old ways, the self-pitying ways. What a lot of the self-help teachers have told us then becomes true, that attitude actually is altitude.