12/19/2023
On your journey to doing better, resist Vanity. The mirror is blindfold that gets you too caught up in you and your selfishness. Its easy to do "you" because doing "us" requires the other person getting attention, love, admiration, support, and kindness also.
Vanity means:
Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements.
Everything isn't about you. To be stingy with giving love and kindness can be one of the ultimate failures.
Many people are quick to keep negative unfruitful promises that they make, but they don't use that same energy to keep good promises. Ask yourself...Do you even make good promises at all...do you even speak or commit yourself to fulfil promises that make someone else happy or fell appreciated...or are all your promises about doing what you know will hurt or irritate someone else, be it for revenge or resentment.
1)
Whose team are you on.."Your team"? ...hmm thats Vain. Vain is a little different than Vanity..it means: "Having or showing an excessively high opinion of one's appearance, abilities, or worth." (FOCUS ON THE WORD "WORTH" this time) So, could it be you actually think your better than everyone else and that nobody deserves a good promise from you..promises to do good, to change for the better of "us"... promises to treat them better...just a thought.
2)
Are you on hells team? If so, keep finding ways to demonstrate and deliver hurt and irritation through words, actions, and your thoughts. When your on hells team you have no desire to do good things "consistently"...because that's not hells nature.
3)
Are you on heavens team, if you believe in heaven at all? Some say they are, but look at what you say, do, and how you treat others. We all aren't perfect but some treatment to others is just the opposite of how heaven would treat them.
These are just things to think on as we grow, because when any of us pass on from this life, people are primarily left to recall the memories of how you treated them, and not hardly ever at all "how you viewed yourself."
So don't get all glammed, dressed up, and smelling good on the outside, when on the inside you smell and look like a waste dump site with all the trash, with all the spoiled and rotten piles of mess within you. The Father of life sees you but you have no reverence fear of him and therefore you continue doing you...but the clock is ticking.
Just a few thoughts,
