It is, one would surmise, human nature to think the best about yourself: assume the purity of one's own motives.
Which is a very good way to keep from changing, improving, growing.
Here are five words that might help:
"Identify with the bad guy."
When in reading Scripture, you encounter any scenario where someone is behaving badly, before moving on having assumed that the Word is referring to other people, ask yourself if the bad guy might be you and in what way.
For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things.
Philippians 3:18-19 NIV
Apparently, all it takes to be an "enemy of the Cross of Christ is...
- Pursuit of destructive things
- Making the fulfillment of your appetites one's overarching concern (their God is their stomach)
- Glorifying shameful things
- Occupying ones mind on earthly things
Forgive me, Father God, for my mind is too often "set on earthly things." May I not be numbered among the enemies of your Son's Cross. In Jesus. Amen.
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