Title: Fix Yourself
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Bible Text: Luke 4:23
fix yourself
British playwright Bernard Shaw was ill. I couldn't stand it, so I called my doctor friend. “I have a fever and aching all over my body, so come and heal me.” 20 minutes later, I heard a voice coming up the stairs. A friend who is a doctor came in with the door open, panting. Then something unexpected happened. The doctor opened the door and came in and collapsed. The patient, startled, jumped up to see the collapsed doctor and said, “Hey! What's going on, come to your senses!" After a while, the doctor's seizures stopped. And breathing returned to normal.
Immediately, the doctor jumped up and said, “Give me the royal maiden, I have to go now!” It wasn't funny. "It's me who deserves the money, I saved you and put you on artificial respiration... … .” The doctor laughed and said. “I fell, so you got up, didn’t you? That is my cure as a doctor.” The doctor friend made a sick friend get up on his own. “Heal yourself!” This is a proverb people use when they criticize Jesus. "None of your business!" “Take care of yourself!” is such a sarcastic voice.
Heal the wounds inflicted by words
I don't know if I hurt you with my words. Because I don't mean to hurt him, I think I said it for him. However, someone may still be suffering from the wounds I inflicted on them.
What a mother often says to her second daughter is that the older sister is good at studies, so why are you like that? I'm really worried, how the hell am I going to live! The second thing to hear is hurt. The mother obviously spoke for her daughter. But the daughter was hurt. There is a saying, “The wounds of words are deeper than the wounds of a sword.”
A person who grew up hearing abusive language from their parents is more likely to be verbally abusive to their wives and children later. He is fed up with growing up with swearing, so he swears the way he was sweared, even though he doesn't think he would.
We have been hurt by words. Where is the unscathed soul? The verbal abuse I received as a child is late, but it needs to be treated quickly. Otherwise, you will not be happy and you will not be successful. “Their words are like the decay of poisonous spears, among which are Hymeneus and Philetus. (2 Timothy 2:17) What they say is that they spread like cancer. A spleen refers to cancer or a malignant boil.
Internal bleeding wounds are the most dangerous. Old wounds, deep wounds of the heart, are not easily healed. Franklin said, “Write your wounds in the sand. Engrave the grace you have received on marble.” But we did the opposite. Grace was written on sand, and wounds engraved on marble.
How to get rid of weeds? Can I cut it with a sickle? Can I dig weeds with a hoe? no. One way to get rid of weeds is to plow the ground and plant crops. You just need to let the crops grow where there are only weeds. It is sowing the word of God.
“Turn up your fallen land, for now is the time to seek the Lord, and at last the Lord will come and rain down righteousness” (Hos. 10:12) Rain is grace. Holy Spirit. The devil makes you cling to the past. The Holy Spirit clears the past. The Holy Spirit turns the pain of the past into the victory of today. Do you hate the past? Tired of the past? Are you ashamed of your past? It doesn't matter. The Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of Righteousness and the Spirit of Truth, transforms the past into glory. You will experience the joy of healing when the wounds of Jesus' cross and yours meet. Jesus' wounds understand and heal my wounds.
We need to burn the weeds, the negative seeds that were planted in the field of our hearts in the past, and plow the old ground. And we must sow the seeds of hope, the seeds of love. You need to make octopus. The field of our heart becomes fertile soil, and if we sow seeds there, we will reap 30, 60, 60, 100 times.
Fix your sense of inferiority
There are very few people without a sense of inferiority. It is said that 95% of the world's people feel inferior. There is even a saying called the Joshua Complex. Joshua also had a sense of inferiority. Joshua feels inferior to Moses. Comparing him to Moses, he considers himself small. Feeling inferior is when you compare yourself to others and see yourself as worthless.
A man was walking down the street, and a masked robber blocked his way. The man subdued the robber with a sword and took off his mask, and he felt that he was inferior. The enemy that stands in my way is not others, but me.
What we need to fix is a feeling of inferiority. Instead of replacing a feeling of inferiority with a feeling of superiority, we need to change the feeling of inferiority into self-esteem. There should be no sense of inferiority, and there should be no sense of superiority. If there is no sense of inferiority, but there is a sense of superiority, it must be replaced with self-esteem. Don't compare me to other people. To have a feeling of superiority in comparison or inferiority in comparison is neither. What we need to have is self-esteem. A person without self-esteem cannot progress further. Those who do not know how to love themselves have no life. Self-esteem is acknowledging your worth.
People with low self-esteem tend to be jealous. Just as rust erodes iron, so jealousy erodes self. Jealousy is acknowledging one's own inferiority. Will you be the object of jealousy or the person of jealousy? Jealousy follows the glory of others. Hating another person is evidence that your self-esteem is being shaken. If the branches shake, it is proof that the wind is blowing. The desire to appear superior to others also stems from feeling inferior. Without self-esteem, you become humble and pitiful.
People with high self-esteem like and love themselves. People with high self-esteem don't compare themselves to others. I don't look down on myself and I don't look down on others. People who are better than me admit they are better than me. What I am good at is admitting that I am good at this.
How can I let go of my feelings of inferiority and have self-esteem? I believe that I am a child of God. “To those who received him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born of God, not of blood, of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man. (John 1:12-13) I received Jesus So, I am acknowledging that I am a child of God.
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession… … . You were once not a people, but now you are God's people; you once had no mercy, but now you have obtained mercy (1 Peter 9-10).
Change your own image. Consciously let go of your inferiority complex and have your self-esteem. I am a beloved child of God. We are the people God has carved into the palm of his hand. “I engraved myself in the palm of my hand… … .” (Isaiah 49:16). I hope that you will overcome your inferiority complex and live proudly with self-esteem.
Fix your humanity
If his abilities are first-class, but his humanity is third-class, his life falls into third-class errors. Humanity is the resource that shapes the future. Humanity must be first-class to elevate my life. Humanity is the foundation of life.
There is something called “human capital”. Human capital is not money or wealth or health. Motivation, judgment and responsibility are human capital. When motivation is lost, judgment is paralyzed, and responsibility is lost, human capital is exhausted.
Although Joseph suffered countless injustices, his humanity was not broken. Why? He was like a tree planted by a spring. I was encouraged by the life of God and overcame hardships. are you human How can a human do that! This is because I am not acting like a human being.
The mother of four children wrote a note and disappeared in the Human Theater that was aired the other day. The youngest is a man who can barely walk, and the mother of three has abandoned her child and family. The father of the child goes to work and raises the children. I met a girl by chance and fell in love with each other. The young lady is now only a 23-year-old college student, the only daughter. I went to the children's house and the children were lovely. Children who have lost their mother cling to their mother and mother. I couldn't get over the little ones. Why not worry? He also has an idea, but he decides. to marry that man. I want to be the mother of these children. The mother who left the note will say that she is not human. We see humanity in the younger stepmother.
Humanity is responsibility. Conscience. And faith. Without a conscience, you are not human. If you are irresponsible, you are not human. Humans have thoughts, love and loyalty. People do not live alone, they live together. Acknowledge God and listen to His Word.
The restoration of humanity is possible through the Word of God. If you believe in God, you become human.
“If anyone is in the Greek pattern, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)
What I am is by the grace of God. Sin destroys humanity. Worship in spirit and in truth. Faith restores humanity. Draw Close to God Try to become a better human being than you are now. Otherwise, life will be in vain. It will crumble like a house built on sand.
All results are determined by the default. Without the basics, nothing can be achieved. What we need to fix is the inside, not the outside.
The wounds of the horses in the past must be healed. Wounds inflicted by words can be healed by the Word of God. The Old and New Testaments are medicines that heal wounds. Take the medicine and apply the medicine to the wound. “… … .I will heal you and heal your wounds” (Jeremiah 30:17).
You need to correct your inferiority complex and have self-esteem. You cannot be happy without respecting yourself. We are children of God and God is our Father.
The shepherd led the sheep out into the fields. The goats also graze with the sheep. When evening came, he led the sheep home, and the goats followed. As the sheep became more numerous, the shepherd gave more food to the goats so that the goats liked him. The next day, all the goats left the flock. The goats among themselves said, “Seeing that we are neglecting our sheep, I think we will treat them like that later. Let's all go! I did. The shepherd's humanity was revealed. Change yourself!