I wrote this in my personal journal and wanted to share it here. I am going to redact the name of the book I was reading because this isn't a criticism of the book and the issue I'm addressing is something I hear often - the book simply reminded me of it. Also, the assertion in the book isn't to ignore yourself but to view your needs less and others more which I believe isn't loving our neighbor as ourself but more than ourself and that's not what the command says. I've read other books by the author and benefited from it along with some good things from this book despite only being at about page 27. The thing is that I have heard stuff along these lines from pastors and others in the church. For me, this usually sounds like: put others before you and ignore yourself and your needs. A lot of people call for sacrifice and what's interesting is that when I look in the Bible, the one time a human sacrifice was required, God provided the sacrifice. Abraham go...
That's what I'm calling it. If you have another term for it, please share it in the comment section. Was it this past weekend? If it wasn't, then it was likely sometime last week. I was scrolling through my feed on Facebook - which I don't frequent, and saw a video by an old mate of mine. For some reason which I can't explain because I usually don't bother with such things, I unmuted it. The videos show up muted so I usually don't hear what's on it. When I unmuted it, the person was saying something that went something like this: '~you must bring yourself into alignment for God to...." I immediately got out of there. I really haven't figured out what the purpose of their video was. it seems they started a real estate company but what I heard was preaching. Granted I heard something like 'most people think...' and if memory serves me right, they were saying something along the lines of people think it will just happen if God has purp...