Many Christians want to change themselves and instead of following God’s way they follow the way of the world, by following carnal doctrines and applying carnal methods. They go back to the past to analyze themselves and to find answers that will help them to change. They dig into the past and while they are digging, they are exposed to all kinds of things that will impact their lives and their behavior. They dig and dig and instead of getting somewhere, they get stuck and fall into the hole of their past. Maybe you also want to change yourself and are digging into your past to analyze yourself, but if you don’t stop you will get stuck and fall into the hole of your past and never become the person that God has created you to be. You can’t change yourself by following the carnal doctrines of man and applying worldly methods and techniques. 耶稣基督是独一的一位, Who can change you. The only thing you have to do is submit yourself to Jesus, 听他的话, renew your mind with His words, 并留在他里面.
What is the danger of analyzing yourself?
我会赞美你; 因为我受造奇妙而可畏: 你的作为奇妙; and that my soul knows right well(诗篇 139:14)
There is a great danger in analyzing yourself. When you start analyzing yourself, it will become an obsession. You will look at everything you do, and analyze every situation, action, habit, 行为, thought, ETC. You will even go back to your past, to your childhood, to figure out what has gone wrong and why you act a certain way, or why you are so insecure or unhappy, ETC.
Stuck in the past
Whoso digs a pit shall fall therein (箴言 26:27)
When you go back to your past and dig in your past to find out your ‘problem’, you will only become more miserable, 最终, you will get stuck in the past. Therefore don’t dig into your past, because the hole will only get bigger and eventually you will fall into the hole of your past.
Maybe you have become a born again believer at a later age. Let’s say in your 20’s, 30’s, or maybe in your 50’s. Maybe you have had a rough past. Maybe you’ve been physically or emotionally abused during your childhood or marriage or bullied at school. Or maybe you’ve been mistreated and hurt by other people or experienced another traumatic experience.
反正, there could be so many things, that happened in the past, which have hurt you and changed the way you think or feel about yourself or others.
Maybe you have very low self-esteem or experience害怕, 焦虑, 惊恐发作, 消极性, 无法控制的愤怒, destructive habits, 成瘾, (emotional) pain or depression, and suicidal thoughts.
If you are one of those people, who are struggling with these issues, I would like to advise you toSTOP ANALYSING YOURSELF!
Don’t go back to your past and fall into the hole of your past
Do 不 go back to your past, to your childhood, to figure out, why you act that way, why you have this anger or why you have low self-esteem, or why you have fears, 焦虑, destructive habits, 成瘾, etc. What you must do, 是更新你的想法 与神的话语.
Don’t look at yourself, but look at Jesus, 这个单词. There is life in the Word of God and this life must be poured into you.
The moment you accept Jesus as your Saviour and Lord and become born again, 你成为 一个新的创造; 生于水和灵.
因此，若有人在基督里, 他是一个新造的人: 旧事已逝; 看, 一切都变成新的了 (2 哥林多前书 5:17)
当你重生时, you still have the carnal mind of the world.
Therefore it’s important to start reading and studying the Word of God and feed yourself with the Word of God instead of the words of the world.
Renew your mind with the Word of God. 默想神的话语, 日夜. 以便, you will think, 说, act and behave the way God wants you to think, 说, 做, 并表现得.
Jesus is your Source
Jesus is your Source. Jesus is the only One, Who can change you. You shall notice, that as you grow up in the spirit, by studying and meditating on the Word, applying the Word in your life, praying (in the Holy Ghost), ETC。, that He will change you. He will take away your sorrow, pain, 愤怒, 苦味, 恐惧, 焦虑, 惊恐发作, and depression and He will put His love, 和平, and joy inside of you.
If you don’t know, how to do this, then find yourself a sincere born again believer, who is willing and able to disciple you. So that you grow up into the image of Jesus Christ; 这个单词 (另请阅读: 重生意味着什么?).
You might ask yourself: “How do I know if a Christian is sincere, or how do I know if he/she is able to disciple me?”. 答案很简单: Look at their walk and look at the fruit the person produces. If the person is carnal and lives like the world and produces the fruit of the flesh, then this person won’t be the right person to disciple you. But if the person walks after the Spirit, producing the fruit of the Spirit, then this person will be the right person for you.
Don’t look back!
God instructed Lot’s wife, to not look back. 然而, Lot’s wife could not keep this commandment of God. 基于这个事实, that she didn’t keep God’s commandment, she changed into a pillar of salt (创世纪 19:17-26).
Many churches have allowed the spirit of the world to enter and rely on the wisdom, 学说, and methods of the world instead of relying on God and His Word. They counsel the believers and dig into their past, while there’s absolutely no instruction in the Bible to do so.
Nowhere in the four gospels of the Bible has Jesus commanded His disciples to go back to the past and find out, where it all went wrong and search for the cause and the root of the problem.
The only people, who are digging into someone’s past are psychologists and psychiatrists. And psychologists don’t have the Bible as their highest Authority. Their doctrines are based upon human philosophies. 是的, their roots are in Greek philosophy and we all know what the Bible says about this and what Paul wrote about it (另请阅读: 基督教心理学是否存在? 和 ‘撒旦的宝座').
Why has the church allowed psychological science?
Why have churches allowed psychological science and applied these psychological doctrines and methods, which are just foolish doctrines of man, based upon carnal wisdom?
What is the reason, why so many believers rely on carnal methods, and the carnal wisdom and knowledge of this world, instead of relying on God, 他的话, and His wisdom?
How can believers say that they believe and have faith in Jesus the Comforter and Healer, while in the meantime, they go to psychologists and/or psychiatrists to comfort and heal their souls?
1 在......之外 4 people visit a therapist and the numbers only increase. And the people aren’t getting any better.
The Word says that: The earthly wisdom is foolishness for God (1 哥林多前书 3:19).
What did Jesus do?
耶稣 绝不 went back to Peter’s childhood or John’s or any of His other disciples. The only ‘issue’ that Jesus referred to or got upset with wastheir lack of faith; their unbelief.
Jesus disciples them and taught His disciples the Kingdom principles.
Jesus knew how much 神爱人 and how precious they are to Him (约翰 3:16). He knew that God created man, and made them wonderfully, fearfully, into His image.
当神创造人时, 神没有说: ”oops, that’s not the way, I wanted to create man, let’s do it again”.
不! God had a picture in His mind and spoke it into being.
在你出生之前, you were already in God’s mind. You are loved, chosen, and wanted by Him.
神想要你, 作回你自己, so that He can mold you and change you into His image; the image of His Son.
How will God do that? 答案是, by the renewing of your mind with the Word of God.
You can’t change your past, it’s gone. 然而, you can change your life now. You can change the direction you’re heading and change your future.
“成为地球之盐”
