Selfishness is God's enemy and mine. If it hungers, may I never feed it; if it thirsts may I never give it to drink.
Selfishness: self life: the natural, the human, the mortal, the earth-bound, the carnal, the flesh: SELF.
To be clear, then, all that is of self in my life is God's enemy as it is holding space and carrying weight that only He deserves and can properly fill. My *self* life (feelings, ideas, desires, emotions, goals, hopes, objectives, habits, patterns, wounds, pain, scars, born of and grown in my human nature) IS an enemy of Jesus in my life and our Relationship, or ability to have a Relationship.
Hating myself is identical to loving myself in its root of SELF; pumping up my confidence in myself with knowledge of even things about Jesus and His Kingdom by my striving and self-effort is entirely SELF-ish; laboring and even sacrificing pleasure to try to please God is yet SELF-life feeding its own ego.
When all is boiled down to the Root, there are only two foundations of a life: either our foundation is SELF trying to reach God for our own peace and satisfaction (though it is never this blatant to the mind of self; it appears to self as noble and sacrificial, as though we are doing God a favor by paying attention and "giving" to Him) OR the foundation is JESUS, the Lamb of God, to whom our entire beings declare:
"YOU are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals because *You were slain, and with Your Blood You purchased for God* persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. YOU have made them to be A KINGDOM AND PRIESTS to *serve* our God (not our selves), and they will reign on the earth."
Jesus, the Master Builder, lays HIS Foundation in our lives: Himself. He knows what He is doing. He is worthy of our complete trust and utter yielding, abandoning, following. He *is* Good, and He *does* Good. Let go to the utter outer inner most! Daily and Together we will walk this out, all who are willing to let Him Reign as their *One and Only*! Yes?
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Really needed to hear this just now. Just reading and realizing how vital it is to be in fellowship with JESUS every moment of every day. Its always a very good question to ask myself, "who is my foundation?" Is JESUS truly the rock my life is built upon...if the answer is yes then it should be reflected in every single aspect of my life. Every stone connected and placed by HIM!!!
God bless
maryjane