Tips for overcoming vanity?

[fellowshipseeker]

Hi folks,
Can anyone offer some advice on how to overcome vanity? I find myself glancing into the mirror very often and I confess to my shame I admire what I see...and I'm a man
Thankyou, Fellowshipseeker

 

[Steeno7]

Hi folks,
Can anyone offer some advice on how to overcome vanity? I find myself glancing into the mirror very often and I confess to my shame I admire what I see...and I'm a man
Thankyou, Fellowshipseeker

Old age.

 

[St_Worm2]

Old age.

Sad, but true! Unless, of course, you have "work" done ..

 

[Inkachu]

Get rid of the mirrors.

Start dressing in the same outfit every day; something plain, like a black tshirt and jeans.

Find something to do that's not centered around you, like volunteering at a hospital.

Ask God to make you humble. Trust me, He's REALLY good at that lol.

 

[Kingsdotter]

Hi folks,
Can anyone offer some advice on how to overcome vanity? I find myself glancing into the mirror very often and I confess to my shame I admire what I see...and I'm a man
Thankyou, Fellowshipseeker

There's nothing wrong with glancing at the mirror and liking what you see but the frequency is the issue here. Here's my 2 cents:

1) Make sure you have only one small mirror in your house (if you live alone) discard the others

2) Volunteer

3) Get a pet if you can, it helps sometimes when you learn to clean up someone else's dirt

4) Pray often

 

[Quasicentennial]

The mirror is like a positive stimulation that takes your imagination to fantasy land and that's where you experience every perfection of being multi-talented and "multi-educated" in that more than one high-income career can be done without failure, from being a mechanic to being a doctor or lawyer.:
Having a perfect physique where every organ in your body is defective-proof but when it comes to spirituality when Jesus returns and transforms, hate to say this though, but like Jesus being totally abstinent, spirituality will replace sexuality: both heterosexual and homosexual preferences kicked out the door:.
Only because depression or mental illness seems to create a failure-driven self-indulgence after sexual hunger performance:. As for spirituality, once we do become Christ-transformed in both mind and body, we will experience Christ's joy how it was meant to permanently feel without any bouts of depression and anxiety:.
Praise Jesus, we wait patiently for your power of grace that is life-transforming and planet-transforming, knowing that old Earth will be replaced with a new Earth, so that we as new brothers and sisters of Christ will be safely assured that our global environment will be disaster-free as long as we live inside our future-coming most advanced free-for-all home accommodation and fire-proof city: the kingdom of God on a new Earth .;'*';. Rev 21:2

 

[ezeric]

boast in your weakness…

2nd Corinthians 12:9

-eric

 

[boogalaboogala]

Hi folks,
Can anyone offer some advice on how to overcome vanity? I find myself glancing into the mirror very often and I confess to my shame I admire what I see...and I'm a man
Thankyou, Fellowshipseeker

one thing that i have learned over the years, and that is that looks are fleeting..
i have gone out with some real babes, only to find a warewolf on my arm a few short years later.. i think that i read that you are 50.. well, at that age, you best enjoy all of those raping stares. because you are probably the only one looking..
every day i go into work with a bunch of ugly muggs.. and wouldn't you know it.. they are the most popular group of guys amongst themselves of anyone i have ever met.. they think they are in a beauty pagent.. lol.. it is too much..
i kid you not.. the uglier each of these muggs get.. the better there stories are about how popular they are amongst the ladies.. of course i always remind them that there wasn't one lady among them..
i mean, ugly people do not look in the mirror and say, "ouch".. on the contrary.. they see beautiful.. and sadly, the most beautiful.. all they see when looking in the mirror is disappointment..
so brother, you are in good company with the rest of us..

 

[ValleyGal]

Overcome one thing with the opposed thing. What is opposite to vanity? Humility. So exercise humility, teach yourself humility, ask God to teach you humility. How can you learn true humility? One of the most effective ways, imo, is to draw close to God - the closer you get to God's holiness, the more unholy you see yourself. See yourself as absolutely no better and no worse than anyone out there. There will always be someone better looking than you; there will also be someone less attractive than you.

Study Paul in the NT. He was a truly humble man. He knew his strengths and was confident in them, but he also knew that without Christ, he was nothing.

Increase your emotional intelligence. That is, find ways to learn true empathy so you can identify readily with those who are less fortunate, who are not so attractive, who are marginalized.

Express gratitude to God for giving you a body you find attractive; but don't consider yourself entitled or "all that" just because you think you are attractive. Some people in this world will not find you attractive. Realize that attractiveness is fleeting, and that true attractiveness comes from attitude and what's inside - that is, humility. If you are attractive and you show everyone that you know it, it's really unattractive. But humility only adds to the attractiveness.

 

[sunshine456]

I am glad you brought this to our attention. In today's state of affairs it is all to acclimated to our general thoughts and perceptions. The enemy has embedded itself deeply in our society with this blatant sinful character and disguised itself as the norm or standard.

The media, advertisements and journalism has helped seed this as a standard and it is "gross" in it's indulgence.

I would advise you to not look in mirrors for very long, just enough for hygienic purposes. Vanity has no place within those whom call themselves true believers and Christians. We are to abstain from such worldly values. We are to flee that which is of the flesh nature and hold steady in the spirit nature that which is of GOD through his son JESUS CHRIST. For the flesh nature wars against the spirit nature and we cannot allow ourselves to be affiliated and overcome by the "flesh" so to speak.

I would also advise to refrain from looking at to much material that presents and adores the false images. rather hang around with those true believers that adorn themselves not in pearls, gold, and riches, but rather adorn themselves in genuine modesty.

Praise be to GOD the heavenly father and his son lord JESUS CHRIST forever>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>