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I'm talking to a person the other day. At one point in the conversation I state: "You know, my biggest struggle is learning to love others AS myself". This person says to me, "Mike, that SO SAD".
I think back upon the conversation and kind of laugh. Not because it's 'ha ha funny', but it's SO SAD that if I didn't laugh I'd have to CRY.
For this 'person' has obviously deluded themselves to the extent that they have convinced themselves that they DO 'love other as themselves'. Truthfully? I have NEVER met such a person.
Yeah, some people 'pretend' better than others, but the TRUTH is: I have NEVER MET an individual that loves others as themselves.
I have met people that HATE others as they HATE themselves.
But my point is the 'confusion'. People confusing themselves by creating 'false beliefs'. If there were men capable of loving others as themselves, Christ wouldn't have needed to DIE for the sins of ALL MEN.
Yet how many of us pretend or falsely convince ourselves that we DO love others as we love ourselves.
Question: How many people on this planet don't even TRULY love themselves? So how could they share something that they don't even possess? How could they love others AS themselves if they don't even TRULY 'love themselves'? And how many of those are 'self deluded' to the extent that they BELIEVE they are sharing their love with each other?
Now, the important issue. The issue that matters MOST: How much 'self delusion' can each of us create before there is really NO TRUTH in us? And if there is no 'truth in us', who do we REALLY worship? Who is our TRUE 'father'.
Blessings,
MEC
I think back upon the conversation and kind of laugh. Not because it's 'ha ha funny', but it's SO SAD that if I didn't laugh I'd have to CRY.
For this 'person' has obviously deluded themselves to the extent that they have convinced themselves that they DO 'love other as themselves'. Truthfully? I have NEVER met such a person.
Yeah, some people 'pretend' better than others, but the TRUTH is: I have NEVER MET an individual that loves others as themselves.
I have met people that HATE others as they HATE themselves.
But my point is the 'confusion'. People confusing themselves by creating 'false beliefs'. If there were men capable of loving others as themselves, Christ wouldn't have needed to DIE for the sins of ALL MEN.
Yet how many of us pretend or falsely convince ourselves that we DO love others as we love ourselves.
Question: How many people on this planet don't even TRULY love themselves? So how could they share something that they don't even possess? How could they love others AS themselves if they don't even TRULY 'love themselves'? And how many of those are 'self deluded' to the extent that they BELIEVE they are sharing their love with each other?
Now, the important issue. The issue that matters MOST: How much 'self delusion' can each of us create before there is really NO TRUTH in us? And if there is no 'truth in us', who do we REALLY worship? Who is our TRUE 'father'.
Blessings,
MEC