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Good morning! Welcome again the morning devotions as we just through the
Word of God together and enjoy the richness of the Bible.
We're beginning a brand new week of reading. And today,
I want us to go back to the Psalms.
The Psalms are David's heart.
This is David writing music that expresses all of
the richness of his understanding of God and his understanding of life.
There's a very interesting passage in our reading today
and really my thought is this:
Self flattery blinds you to self-realization.
Psalms chapter thirty six verses one and two.
"An oracle is within my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked."
"There is no fear of God before his eyes."
"For in his own eyes he flatters himself too much (too much) to detect or hate his sin."
Let me read that to you again.
"For in his own eyes he flatters himself too to detect or hate his sin."
We live in a world of branding.
We live in a world of self promotion. We live in a world of marketing.
But it has really always been that way.
I can remember as a young man my father being very upset with
a new mantra that was being spoken in the sales world of his day where
salesman were taught, "If you don't blow your own horn nobody else will blow it."
And I can remember my father being upset about it.
Really, the world has not changed.
The world has just different ways to sell the same bad ideas.
Now, brothers and sisters, I want to challenge you today,
in this world of self-promotion, in this world of
self-branding, in this world of always trying to promote yourself and make
yourself look so good,
please just back up a little bit
and understand that self-flattery blinds you to self realization.
Please understand that when you flatter yourself, you blind yourself
to the ability to detect or hate your own sin.
We need to have an honest evaluation of ourselves.
I hear a lot of talk about somebody being humble today and humility but
I've never seen a human being that I would really call humble accept Jesus.
And the Bible says, of course, Moses. Moses was the humblest man that ever lived.
Yet, if we were to look at either one of those two men in modern society today,
No one would call them humble.
People have changed the definitions of words.
Humility is just an honest evaluation of themselves.
Rather than flatter yourself
why don't you sit down with the mirror of God's word everyday.
And let the mirror of God's Word really allow you to see yourself.
We can't see ourselves in the eyes of others.
And forgive me,
we can't even see ourselves in what others say about us.
We see ourselves in the mirror
the mirror God's Word.