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INFERIORITY COMPLEX
They tell about a man who was down at the altar praying. ‘Lord, show me I’m nothing,
show
me I’m nothing.” Then the preacher came along and said, ‘Take it by
faith, brother.” Story is told of a man used to have a terrible bad
inferiority complex. Then somebody came along and told him he didn’t
have a ‘feriority complex - he was just PLAIN INFERIOR!!! I used to do
things constantly to ‘compensate” for my deep-seated feelings of
Inadequacy. The ol’ one-room country school we went to was called ‘Wild
Cat School”. Then we went into town to the citified junior high school,
and, truth to tell, I didn’t rightly know how to act around all those
city-wise kids. So, to try to do something about my 9th grade
inferiority complex, I thought maybe I could get a book from the school
lie-berry. The first book I got said “Act natural!” But that didn’t
help much, you see, ‘cause the thing that I ‘naturally” was, I knew I
couldn’t afford to publicly be!”
So, I got another book, - an’
it said, - ‘Be yourself” But that didn’t help either, because MY old
self definitely WAS inferior! Later on, my friend, Lee Eliason, told me
to ‘be sincere”, and that helped some, but here, as a senior at Bethel
College, my discovery of this ‘Greatest Secret” fully met the needs of
my life along this line because Christ BECAME my sufficiency and my
adequacy!!!!!!! This really Really REALLY solved the “complex”
problem!!!
So, you don’t need to die or commit suicide- because
Christ wants to BECOME your LIFE by your acceptance. Accept what He did
when He took NOT ONLY our sins and sicknesses, so we can be forgiven
and healed completely, but He took our SELVES. (Rom. 6, Col., Eph.,
etc.) He put US to death with ALL of our insufficiencies, inadequacies,
inferiorities, inabilities, instabilities, everything negative, nasty,
weak and sinful, and took us to the Cross, put us to death, buried us
and raised us up in newness of life, a whole, new, beautiful, glorious,
adequate, sufficient, wonderful, able, stable creation fashioned in His
Image, that He wants to actually BEEEEEEE the Life of!!!!!!
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