Yes! I think as Christians we know this and we die to ourselves pretty well…**when we feel secure and confident ** but its when we “For so often, when we feel fearful, when we feel insignificant, when we feel insecure and forgotten and overlooked and unimportant, those ideals of our culture make us start grasping for the promotion of ourselves. The fear of insignificance makes us start grabbing for a plastic version of significance in the shouty narcissism of the wounded ego.” We fall right back into the ways of the world.
Yes! I think as Christians we know this and we die to ourselves pretty well…**when we feel secure and confident ** but its when we “For so often, when we feel fearful, when we feel insignificant, when we feel insecure and forgotten and overlooked and unimportant, those ideals of our culture make us start grasping for the promotion of ourselves. The fear of insignificance makes us start grabbing for a plastic version of significance in the shouty narcissism of the wounded ego.” We fall right back into the ways of the world.
Our incurvatus in se