December 27, 2014
If there is one thing you don’t get trained or
qualified to do, it is self-pity. No exam is needed to become a professional at
it. To some of us, self-pity is as natural as a seeing a fish doing swimming
stunts in the ocean. Self-pity means feeling sorry for oneself. Most times, it
always seems right and justifiable, but in the end, it does more harm than
good, which is why if you don’t overcome it, it overcomes you and gets you
limited.
In John 5, the Pool of Bethesda was known for
healing miracles whenever the angel stirred the waters, the first person to
enter the water would get healed. But a man was there for 38 solid years
without having the opportunity to step into the waters. Even when the Master
Healer got there and asked if the man was ready to be healed, his response was,
“Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but
while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.” Jesus just had mercy and
said, “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.”
The devil is always in love with people who engage
in self-pity because once you engage in it, you are no threat to him again.
Engaging in self-pity makes you unable to pray and also turns you to a
man/woman of no faith, because the time you are to spend praying, you spend it
singing songs of pity. It also blinds your eyes to other solutions around. The
man at the pool was face to face with Jesus and yet was complaining of how
incapacitated he was. That tells us that engaging in self-pity solves nothing,
it even compounds one’s issue. The more you pity yourself, the more you are
cheating yourself by giving God no opportunity to help.
Stop pitying yourself, you are a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, so c’mon start
celebrating your ingenuity.
Remain blessed.
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