How Big Is Your Ego ? 
It should be Rock solid! 

Many people mistakenly place their ego’s on their accomplishments or on what other’s think of them.  Now, consider the good quarterback who sincerely tries his best, but loses a game because of a late interception.  Or consider the person who evangelizes God’s good news to his friends out of love for them, and who is now rejected by those friends.  Our ego’s should not be so fragile.  They should not be so shallow.  And it is probably a sin to place so much importance on things of this world when it is really the things of heaven we should love.   

When we build a mountain, or an ego, that is opposed to God’s perfect will, that mountain needs to be crushed and it will be crushed so that we can go to heaven.  God wants us to build – yes, it takes work – our ego on the Rock. 

I believe our ego should be as follows:

I am the worst sinner that I know of because I can see glimpses of my own guilt, but I cannot see other’s guilt.  If not for the grace of God, there go I.  (And, I am even forbidden by the Bible to even try to judge another’s guilt.)  And yet, still I know that I am deeply loved by my Father in heaven who asked His Son to die for my sins and establish a Church to guide me and take me home into heaven.  He offers me the grace and the Sacraments to truly repent, and to commit my life to Him and to live in a good and loving way.  Because my ego is based on the deep love that Jesus expressed so perfectly for ME my ego is based on a ROCK that cannot be shaken. 

As for my accomplishments, they are more God’s gift to me than things of my own doing because it is only by His grace that I have life itself, the knowledge, the will, the power and the ability to accomplish any of those things. 

When I see others committing the most terrible of sins I cannot look down on them in contempt as if I were their judge.   Perhaps they were not given the graces mentioned above that I may be tempted to take for granted.  How many of those graces have been given to me simply because others have prayed for me about which I know nothing about ?

Let Jesus be your Rock!

If you would like to read more on what makes you important please read the article :

DO  YOU  WANT  TO  BE  HAPPY ?   

Or read the following commentary on a new book about

Self-Esteem and the Love of God
By Dr. Jeff Mirus

Self-Esteem Without Selfishness

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