If you are not actively fighting against it, you are a self-centered person; and so am I! The human nature, due to the corruption of the original sin, is deeply curved in on itself. Self comes first! Sometimes it is so bent that we can even become prideful about the gifts of God.
Dr. T. D. Worthington reminds us that when you are curved inward, your happiness will depend on people and circumstances. Cynicism, hopelessness, grumbling, complaining, self-pity, apathy, cowardice, jealousy, all show that your allegiance is too much toward yourself and the things of earth. These things cannot exist in a heart consumed with the love of God and the love of others; one attitude will necessarily displace the other.
In this week’s PathLight broadcast, you will be asked if you are you joyful? You will be asked if you are content? Questions like this will help you determine if you are bent inward rather than upward and outward.