What is your Ego like?

Mr. Webster defines "ego" as the conscious part of the personality component that is conscious, most immediately controls behavior and is most in touch with external reality. Maybe an easier way to describe it is the part of your mind that decides how you will act and react to the events, people and God in your life.

Basically there are at least two types of  EGO, they are the ones that:


Edge                                                    Exalt

God                        Or They                God
                                    
Out                                                      Over Everything!

Your freewill, a gift from God, gives you the choice to do either. But guess which way will make you truly happier...you guessed it. You and I were created in God's image to glorify Him.

"Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the catle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."    Genesis1:26 (NASB)

(There are two things I would like to point out in this passage, first, when God the Heavenly Father was talking He was speaking to Jesus the Son of God and the Holy Spirit. These Three are known as the "Holy Trinity." Second mankind was made in God's image. We are not all our own little gods.


"Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."                                   Corinthians 10:31 (NASB)

"If you will return, O Israel, declares the Lord, "Then you should return to Me. And if you will put away your detested things from my presence, And will not waver, And you will swear, ' As the Lord lives,' In truth and justice and in righteousness; Then the nations will bless themselves in Him, And in Him they will glory."                                             Jeremiah 4:1 and 2 (NASB)


Another great passage that descibes the heart of a Godly person is Psalm 145. As we do the things God seeks in us He abundantly blesses our life not always with health or wealth but in the eternal blessings of the soul which far out weigh the temporary life we live today.

"And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."     Micah 6:8

 Should you choose to edge God out of your life, God will deny you a place in heaven with Him.

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rains fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock.

Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed that house; and it fell- and great was its fall."
                                                               Matthew 7:24-27 (NASB)

Jesus said it, I believe it and hope you do too.