EGO-->PRIDE-->FOOLISHNESS!
EGO itself is not bad. It is your own sense of your value and importance, or lets say self worth.
However, EGOCENTRIC means thinking only about yourself and not about what other people need or want.
EGOISM is the fact of thinking that you are better or more important than any one else. Uhmmm... Let's consider a biblical character named NABAL.
1 Samuel 25:10-20,23-24,36-38
[10]“Who is this fellow David?” Nabal sneered to the young men. “Who does this son of Jesse think he is? There are lots of servants these days who run away from their masters.
[11]Should I take my bread and my water and my meat that I’ve slaughtered for my shearers and give it to a band of outlaws who come from who knows where?”
LESSON 1- Egocentrism pulls a man down faster than he can ever imagine. No doubt, he owned the sheeps and the set tables of banquet, but lack of a proper sense of Judgement can ruin man. No man is an island, we all need each other. David had helped watched over his flocks in the wilderness and yet he was too foolish to pay less attention to his plea. Don't even wait to be helped before choosing to help others.
[12]So David’s young men returned and told him what Nabal had said.
[13]“Get your swords!” was David’s reply as he strapped on his own. Then 400 men started off with David, and 200 remained behind to guard their equipment.
LESSON 2- YOUR FOOLISHNESS CAN RUIN YOU! DON'T BLAME IT ON ANYONE.
[14]Meanwhile, one of Nabal’s servants went to Abigail and told her, “David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he screamed insults at them.
[15]These men have been very good to us, and we never suffered any harm from them. Nothing was stolen from us the whole time they were with us.
[16]In fact, day and night they were like a wall of protection to us and the sheep.
[17]You need to know this and figure out what to do, for there is going to be trouble for our master and his whole family. He’s so ill-tempered that no one can even talk to him!”
[18]Abigail wasted no time. She quickly gathered 200 loaves of bread, two wineskins full of wine, five sheep that had been slaughtered, nearly a bushel of roasted grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 fig cakes. She packed them on donkeys
[19]and said to her servants, “Go on ahead. I will follow you shortly.” But she didn’t tell her husband Nabal what she was doing.
LESSON 3- Don't sorround yourself with foolish people. Thank God for this servant! Thank God his master's wife (Abigail) listened to him. Sometimes our domestic staffs have lot to offer, don't continually shut them out!
[20]As she was riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming toward her.
[23]When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her donkey and bowed low before him.
[24]She fell at his feet and said, “I accept all blame in this matter, my lord. Please listen to what I have to say.
LESSON 4 - A good wife is the best thing that can ever happen to a man, vice versa.
[36]When Abigail arrived home, she found that Nabal was throwing a big party and was celebrating like a king. He was very drunk, so she didn’t tell him anything about her meeting with David until dawn the next day.
[37]In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him what had happened. As a result he had a stroke, and he lay paralyzed on his bed like a stone.
[38]About ten days later, the lord struck him, and he died.
LESSON 5- Abigail wasn't seeking for her own wellbeing alone but that of her household. What a woman!!
Avoid Pride, Avoid Folly, Avoid Egoism / Egocentricism...
God bless us all. #christian-trail #flaminghelpers #steemchurch