Self-Made Leads To Self Destruction BY: KB 8.26.15

We’re ALL broken, fractured and chipped in one way or another………every last one of us. I am deathly afraid of the folks who delude themselves into believing they have it all together or that they are self-made.  Believe it or not it speaks volumes to how they’re going to interact with you. I’m not saying this is a quick read but it’s taken me most of my adult years to learn this lesson.

The self –made individual believes that they have gotten to their position without the help of God (Higher Power). The self-made person approaches life from a position of privilege and entitlement; they’re supposed to have and their needs are the only needs that matter.

Psalm 1: 1- 2     1 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers! 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night

Psalm 5:9     Not a word from their mouth can be trusted; their heart is filled with malice. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they tell lies.

Joshua 1:8     Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

These people surround themselves with two types of people. The first being type of friend is the like minded; which in turn drives a cut-throat competition. Imagine a pre-school; toddlers driven by the word “mine” The second type of friend is the person they see as the less fortunate. The less fortunate feeds the ego..

Philippians 2:3      Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

James 3:14-16       But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

2 Timothy 3:1-5       But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Are you this person? How ya livin’?