Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble. 

Pity is the capacity to enter into the pain of another in order to do something about it; self-pity is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality. 

Pity discovers the need in others for love and healing and then fashions speech and action that bring strength; self-pity reduces the universe to a personal wound that is displayed as proof of significance. 

Pity is adrenaline for acts of mercy; self-pity is a narcotic that leaves its addicts wasted and derelict.*

No matter what we have gone through, or are currently going through...we have a God who has bestowed an amazing amount of pity on us. To minimize that gift by continually wallowing in self-pity is an unhealthy and unnecessary trip down a road that we shouldn't be traveling.

"But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved- and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." Ephesians 2:4-9

Have a great day and God bless!

Pastor Mike / The Open Word

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