Reflections

Scriptures warn of the rise of the self-lovers in 2 Timothy 3:1-4 (NIV) 1  But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2  People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3  without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4  treacherous, rash, conceited…  

These self-lovers will be self-centred.  And one major evidence of self-centredness is pride.  Scriptures speak of those “boastful, conceited”.  They think very highly of themselves, of their opinions, of their perspectives.  Do we find ourselves thinking so highly of our own opinion, perspective, etc that we fail to carefully consider what others are saying to us?  If so, we are in danger of too much pride in our hearts.    

Another major evidence is having little consideration of others.  Scriptures here speak of those who are “abusive, without love, ungrateful, unforgiving, slanderous, brutal, treacherous” etc.   They could not care much about others because they consider others of lesser value, compared to themselves.  If they mistreat others on their way to getting what they want, so be it!

Are we showing signs of such neglect of others?  Could it be we consider others of lower value than ourselves?  Then we need to move away from such self-centredness.