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As Christian’s, our most basic instruction is to submit to God’s will.
We constantly fall short in this area everyday, but it’s vital that we continuously push ourselves to be more like Christ in our love for others and obedience to our heavenly father.
As humans, we have natural, psychological responses to stress. Sometimes we get so buried that we completely shut down, or, even more commonly, we get stretched so thin that we get angry at ourselves, the person we decide is responsible, or the situation that we’re in and take it out on others.
Why do we always seem to react to stress in the same way even though we may recognize it? Why can’t we control your emotions? We keep dealing with the same issues but with different people, different circumstances and can’t understand how we can always be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Sometimes we even play the blame game and use the people around us or the situation we’re in as an excuse for our reaction.
We are, by nature, faulty people that have a tendency to look for the faults in ourselves and others.
More often than not, this attitude of criticism devalues what Jesus did for us. He knew all of our faults and failures before volunteering to die for our sins.
Even before He made the world, God loved us & chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in His eyes (Ephesians 1:4)
We are constantly, impatiently, and selfishly rushing toward the end of our lives. We put so much pressure on ourselves and others that we lose sight of what really matters in this life and we neglect to be grateful for the life and love that God has freely given us.
How do we become less critical of ourselves? We have to begin to see ourselves through the eyes of our most loving parent, our heavenly Father, who created us so beautifully and wonderfully.
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:10)
We need to stop and smell the roses.
Let’s make the commitment to be less self-absorbed and critical and seek to become more absorbed with our relationship with God.