Everytime I hear that it is satanic to believe in yourself, I think just how infantile that line of thought is. God is within, nowhere else outside or in some book, thought, or belief system. It's widely believed that taking oneself to be their own God is satanic and blasphemy. However, I say it's the total opposite. NOT being your own God, light, believing in yourself is satanic. Yourself is all you have at the end of the day, you take yourself everywhere you go. Whether you accept Jesus, follow Islam, etc. it all starts with YOU. No one else makes that decision but YOU.
People think it's selfish to believe in yourself and should therefore not believe in yourself. This is the epitome of weakness being a virtue. There's so much rationalization around not believing in oneself as a means to justify not having fully grown up yet. I have been homeless before without anything. What got me out of it is believing in myself, not praying to some God outside of me. So I say, drop all fear and stand on your own two feet. Even if the body dies, so be it! I accept it fully, I live NOW, not tomorrow. Without death, there is no life. So what is the problem?
I think it is the Christian way to be responsible and to stand on your own two feet. Kids must grow up, get an education and/or a trade, go to work and learn independence.
That's life. These days we have the average boy turning into a man at age 30 after living at home, playing video games, riding his skate board through his twenties, milking his parents. A hundred years ago, 15 year old boys knew how to run their father's farm and go to market, trade and do business, get married at a young age and actually support a family before they were 21. Kids today need a kick in the ass and that is coming from a Christian.
But then once you are on your two feet, independent, moving along and something knocks you off your feet and maybe you can't get up? Or your lose your job, have a bad accident, your wife leaves you and you fall into depression, what then? Maybe you get back on the horse and try again ... then another failure comes that wipes you out again. Now you are defeated and confused. What's it all about? What's the purpose life? What am I going through these ups and downs for? You can't find meaning and when you follow the path in your mind to the end, death awaits you. For some, they even die young.
Our plans and efforts to conquer all the obstacles, tragedies and failures takes courage, but sometimes we lose it within ourselves and become depleted. What do say to that person, "Stand on your two feet?"
He's curled up in a ball, he has lost hope and the will to go on, "What's the point , he cries". This is why we look to God for help, because we can't do it alone anymore. We realize that our way didn't work. Even if you become successful in the eyes of the world, financially that is, you may be empty and unhappy inside. A relationship with God means that you are not a failure, and there is meaning and purpose in life, that you are loved, are special and He will not fail you. Death is not the end and we are given strength to persevere by God towards the finish line. It is a race to the finish. But the finish line is not the end, just a new beginning, an eternal existence. And so this hope gives us reason to go forward. "God causes all things to work together for good for those who love the Lord, for those who are called by His purpose." So everything happens for a reason, even bad things. We learn and we grow from our failures mistakes and losses.
We believe material things are temporal, so we can't take them with us. Even if you have no legs and can't stand, it's temporal and you will walk with the Lord someday.
But selfish people are usually unhappy.
Not everyone that stands on their two feet are happy.
Greedy people stand.
Angry people stand.
Hateful wicked people stand.
Thieves and murderers stand too.
Alcoholics and drug addicts stand ... most of the time.
Most of these people are selfish. "It's all about me, mine and what can I get out of it. They are the takers. They stand on their two feet and take, they rarely give. And they end up losers and miserable.
So stand on your own two feet, but where you stand and what you stand for is important. Jesus wants you to stand by Him