Summary
Because we know that if we saw others or if we let others see ourselves and who we really are, we know we know they wouldn't like us. Because in the depths of our hearts, we are raging, raging with anger, raging with envy, raging with malice, raging with lust, raging with all sorts of sin. Seeking approval in the Greek means to make friends of, to win favor, to gain or seek, to win someone, to please someone. And we've taken those opportunities to compromise what we know is right, to compromise our faith, our beliefs, to compromise who we are as Christian people and we seek after the world and we seek to please the world and when we seek to gain the world's approval, we are seeking to compromise the face to that which we belong and have been called to. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as own because you do not belong to the world but I have chosen you out of the world. We know at our heart we are not likable because of our sin and we've tried to put forth the facade before others around us so they will like us so they will approve of us but we also try to put a facade before the Lord so he will like us and so he will approve of us and just like the the Pharisee and the tax collector who came before the Lord praying and the Pharisee says I am so grateful that I'm not like this sinner because I do all these things well and right.
Video citations
- "Fear of Not Being Liked" 2-2-25 — Hi, my name is Carrie and I am a recovering like a hollock. I open with that because I think I am in a room filled with those who are either like a hollock or recovering like a hollock as myself. We…