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"To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:" - Romans 2:7
In today's society, it seems like many people are losing their desire to have personal glory, honor and dignity. People, such as the leftists, often act in ways that makes them lose all sense of personal honor and dignity. And on top of that, they don't even care. Dressing weird, having a weird haircut, doing shameful things, etc, means that you don't care about your self-image. Normally, every normal person has their own sense of dignity and importance if you will.
This should especially apply to Christians and that is proven by a verse like Romans 2:7. Christians are by character people who in patience and in continuance seek glory and honor. And the more you accomplish those things (and gain personal glory and honor), the better it is. Sometimes, people would even to go the very extreme with this and fantazise about extreme persecution, being beaten up, going to jail or being killed for Christ's sake. And then they would go to heaven with glory, as a martyr. That is a great thing. Seek as much glory as you possibly can.
Sometimes, people would talk in ways that sound like this: "oh, I'm just this humble nobody" almost like they enjoy the fact that they don't have much glory or honor. That should be wrong. Society should be built in a way that bolsters people's sense of their own dignity. But in today's world, it looks like the world is falling off the tracks with this idea. It feels like people are losing their desire for honor. Like they don't care. And that allows them to do things which would normally be embarrassing without feeling embarrassed, to do something shameful and having no feeling of shame. And to put things back on track, we desperately need to go in the other direction. We need people to feel their self-importance again. If people no longer feel embarrassement, they need to be mocked and exposed and humiliated to the point that they start feeling it again - so they can repent. It is a hard, uphill battle, but it has to be fought with patience.
It brought to mind how someone here would say that he is "by reputation" a Calvinist. This is a person who doesn't care about honor. Who doesn't care about his own dignity. If you actually cared, you would know exactly what you are, what you identify as, defend it, and not let anyone say anything against it. That would actually go together with Romans 2:7. Don't let anyone else tell you what your theological position is - know it by yourself, be proud of it, and defend it. It should be embarrassing to let your reputation define you - to any normal person anyways.
The verse should also apply in other areas of life. If you have a job, try to be proud that you have the job. Try to have pride that you know how things are done. Try to have pride in your skills, in your talents, etc. If you have a hobby, take pride in that too. Try to have a sense of being an important person and not just a humble nobody. If you are a saved Christian, you literally are quite important whether you like that or not. No matter how deep into sin you fall, you are still called a saint, simultaneously.
In today's society, it seems like many people are losing their desire to have personal glory, honor and dignity. People, such as the leftists, often act in ways that makes them lose all sense of personal honor and dignity. And on top of that, they don't even care. Dressing weird, having a weird haircut, doing shameful things, etc, means that you don't care about your self-image. Normally, every normal person has their own sense of dignity and importance if you will.
This should especially apply to Christians and that is proven by a verse like Romans 2:7. Christians are by character people who in patience and in continuance seek glory and honor. And the more you accomplish those things (and gain personal glory and honor), the better it is. Sometimes, people would even to go the very extreme with this and fantazise about extreme persecution, being beaten up, going to jail or being killed for Christ's sake. And then they would go to heaven with glory, as a martyr. That is a great thing. Seek as much glory as you possibly can.
Sometimes, people would talk in ways that sound like this: "oh, I'm just this humble nobody" almost like they enjoy the fact that they don't have much glory or honor. That should be wrong. Society should be built in a way that bolsters people's sense of their own dignity. But in today's world, it looks like the world is falling off the tracks with this idea. It feels like people are losing their desire for honor. Like they don't care. And that allows them to do things which would normally be embarrassing without feeling embarrassed, to do something shameful and having no feeling of shame. And to put things back on track, we desperately need to go in the other direction. We need people to feel their self-importance again. If people no longer feel embarrassement, they need to be mocked and exposed and humiliated to the point that they start feeling it again - so they can repent. It is a hard, uphill battle, but it has to be fought with patience.
It brought to mind how someone here would say that he is "by reputation" a Calvinist. This is a person who doesn't care about honor. Who doesn't care about his own dignity. If you actually cared, you would know exactly what you are, what you identify as, defend it, and not let anyone say anything against it. That would actually go together with Romans 2:7. Don't let anyone else tell you what your theological position is - know it by yourself, be proud of it, and defend it. It should be embarrassing to let your reputation define you - to any normal person anyways.
The verse should also apply in other areas of life. If you have a job, try to be proud that you have the job. Try to have pride that you know how things are done. Try to have pride in your skills, in your talents, etc. If you have a hobby, take pride in that too. Try to have a sense of being an important person and not just a humble nobody. If you are a saved Christian, you literally are quite important whether you like that or not. No matter how deep into sin you fall, you are still called a saint, simultaneously.
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