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I want to be the best person I can be but people have been telling me that i'm hard on myself |
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Written by Jay Gamelin
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
I want to hold myself accountable, I want to be the absolute best person I can be, but lately a lot of people have been telling me that I'm too hard on myself...How can I keep a healthy balance? How can I hold myself accountable and be a good person with out pushing myself this hard?
Jay says... listen to them. Perhaps they are the voice of God. If you are depending on YOUR good work to live fully in Christ, then perhaps your God is not saving you. Perhaps you are trying to save yourself. I am not saying go mess up, make a fool, etc. We don’t sin so that grace may abound. If you are working for the grace of God, as a thank you for what God has done, wonderful! If you are working to pay off a “debt” to God, you are not living in grace but by the law. Perhaps your friends are right, maybe they are wrong. Examine yourself. Ask yourself why you do the things you do. Are they to make God happy or are they because God is happy with you? When this gets answered, my guess is you will know whether you are being too hard on yourself.
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