This is how God made us, He made us to GIVE US THESE THINGS. When we turned from him in sin, WE LOST THESE THINGS.
since this is HOW GOD MADE US, we spend a lifetime of trying to replace God and getting these things on our own. This is selfishness.
God telling us HE WANTS TO GIVE US THESE THINGS is not selfish. It is being humble. it is saying God I can;t do it. I must rely on you. so I am on my knees calling out to you to have mery on me a sinner.
selfishness is putting your needs above another's needs..
we love BECAUSE GOD FIRST LOVES US
the only love an unsaved person can give is selfish love.. Because they have yet to experience the love of God.
God fills our tanks. to excess. we take this excess and give or share it with others. Thats why God gets the credit not us
When I rely on God to save me. I am nt putting mny needs above anothers. I am calling out to God that I am hopless and helpless
I am confused with your language. As a child to be selfish is to take something and not share it.
The fall of man was Adams desire for knowledge of good and evil despite being told he would die.
So he chose knowledge over life. The desire in mankind for life, a solution to death, is very much an individual desire.
You are trying it seems to me to fit selfishness into rejecting God. I would use language to say admitting
failure and problems and asking for help is mans problem, staying self reliant and self contained.
In the trinity, Gods three part, Father, Son and Holy Spirit are separate yet together, distinct yet united.
I realise in Christ He desires we are strong in Him, with a strong sense of self and His blessing and building
in our lives. Jesus affirms who we are, as loving, caring, patient people, healed, restored forgiven.
If Jesus calls us to be on the throne with Him, doing as He does, His ambassadors and servants, executing
His will in his stead, then He desires to build us up to His likeness. That likeness is not a lost broken weak
person without direction, always confused and not able to share and give, but like Jesus, sharing and blessing
others.
Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
Rom 8:17
So in gaining salvation we are grafted into the vine, part of the body of Christ, living and breathing as His witnesses to the world.
Some might suggest this is self righteousness, but I would suggest no this is Christ at work in us making
us into His body, which is victorious.
God bless you