GLIMPS OF GLORY

Rx: Laughter

“The old saying that laughter is the best medicine definitely appears to be true, at least when it comes to protecting your heart:” Michael Miller, M.D.

Miller found that people with heart disease were 40% less likely to laugh in a variety of situations, compared with people of the same age without heart disease.

Provine, the neuroscientist at the University of Marlyand, took a team of graduate students out in a city to eavesdrop on people in social settings. One of the findings was that women laugh a lto around men, even if the men aren’t saying anything particularly funny. Provine followed up with an analysis of thousands of personal ads and found women want men who make them laugh. And men, he notes, understandably like women who laugh in their presence. After all, it makes them feel charming and irresistible.

- Creative Living (Magazine by Northwestern Mutual)

The problem is not whether you have too much self esteem or too little self esteem; the problem is that you have too much of yourself.

The problem is not that you think too little of yourself or you think too much of yourself; the problem is that you think of yourself too much.

And therefore, you will never be able to truly love people for who they are. You’ll either use them because they make you feel noticed; which is a superiority complex, or you’ll despise them because they make you feel unnoticed; that’s the inferiority complex.

So how do we get off this roller-coaster of self regard?

True humility is not thinking more of yourself or less of yourself; it’s thinking of yourself, less

Equality to God isn’t suppose to be grasped

And the problem all along is that you thought glory comes from grasping, from attaining, from clamoring, but true glory comes when you receive it from the one who gave up His, to give it to you.

If you understand that you have all the glory that you will ever need, and all the glory that you [in fact] never deserved in Jesus Christ then in fact, you realize that no one is any longer a threat to your glory because you already have it and you didn’t even deserve it in the first place.

Now, all of your relationships will no longer be about you, no longer be about protecting, and grasping, and guarding. Your relationship will be about doing for others, exactly as Jesus Christ did for you. giving up your standing, giving up your glory, all that you value, for others.