DAILY HOPE DEVOTIONAL: OCTOBER 4 SELF CONSCIOUSNESS (1) SCRIPTURE: Exodus 3: 10; 4: 10; Judges 6: 14-15; Philippians 4: 13
Self-consciousness is for long discussed amongst psychologist and religious groups. In this academic field, self-consciousness is described as “an undue awareness of oneself”. What this means is that the person feels not too fitting like others, either in terms of the dress wore, physical appearance or others. When a person is thinking not good enough to stand before crowds to give speech or lecture, it is said that such a person is responding to self-consciousness. A self-conscious person, according to this field of knowledge, focuses on self-feeling like: How do I look? What do they think of me? Do I fit in? And so on. The nature of this self-consciousness can be described as negative angle of self-consciousness. Psychologists call these inner voices as “self-talk.”
As a matter of fact, this negative angle of self-consciousness is found in many human beings. It has been responsible for reducing self-confidences in people and the main tap root of discouragement. It can be one of the major reasons inferiority complex overwhelms people. It can stop any man or woman from bringing out the best in him or her. Many of us are so inclined to these inner voices, talking to us negatively about who we are. But the truth is that these “self-talks” are really falsehood from the pit of hell. Today’s devotional, in as much as agreeing to a field of knowledge about self-consciousness; differ from this theory, especially for Christians.
There are so many people in the Bible who were victims of negative self-conscious theory. Moses saw self unfit to lead Israelites from Egypt into the Promised Land (Exod. 3: 10; 4: 10). Gideon saw self as one from the least tribe and himself the least in the family (Judges 6: 14-15). The same was in Saul when greeted with royal language by Prophet Samuel. The devotional on self-consciousness is rather going to devote its focus on how we Christians should respond to inner voices of negative self-consciousness. Any thinking of self-consciousness that disqualifies you as cannot do, do not fit into certain group of people to handle certain position is from the pit of hell. Apostle Paul boldly said “I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthen me” (*Phil. 4: 13).
TAKE ACTION:
Have you lost some opportunities given you as a result of thinking you were not fit into the position or the offer? What about thinking you cannot appear before groups of persons to talk to them? Do you stay away from where people gather thinking your appearance in terms of dressing is not proper? Thinking as these means you are operating in negative self-consciousness. Use your discoveries as prayer points for God to set you free from them all today.
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