"If you are constantly being mistreated, you're cooperating with the treatment."
~ Robert Anthony
Friday, November 6, 2009
Need to protect yourself better?
This quote arrested my attention and got me to wondering about abusive states of mortal mind I need to be more diligent in defending myself from...
3 comments:
For sure. And when we "rag" on ourselves, as to how we don't always measure up to "the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." (-Bible), to the perfect man, to the image of God Himself! are not we wasting our time and joy?
Why beat up the poor human sense of things? It so often can't help it, conditioned as it is from birth to
believe ever so many strange and false and awful things! Let's not condemn the human, but uplift it!
Always remembering, there are not two earths, one flat and one round!! The flat one is just a false sense of what the round one is all about! Even so, the human sense of ourselves and others is not the
real, so we need to EXPAND our view of things...look deeper, higher! Thank Goodness we now have the Truth to apply to our "problem!"
:<))
Thanks so much, Evan, and thanks to Anonymous above. I found your comments very helpful. To plunge "beneath the material surface of things" as Jesus did, has to be the way forward to expand and progress..I am striving to remember that!
How interesting! I recently read in the Bible where Jesus basically says he knows how untrustworthy man's opinions are -- these could be opinions about ourselves, or reactions to others' behavior.
So, if this is how the little "man" operates, there is no need to get all worked up. Giving credence to put downs of any sort are old ways that don't serve and we can skip the participation. It's God's opinion that we can trust and his treatment that sets the standard.
John 2:25
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