Instead of loving the Trinity of God [Father, Son & Holy Spirit], suffering humanity tends to love a different trinity: Me, myself, and I. This problem is particularly common among females who have hit the metaphorical Wall i.e., they have become officially ugly typically due to advancing age or poor lifestyle choices. A party girl, serial tanner, and smoker, for instance, is likely to lose her beauty well before she reaches the age of 30. The infamous Wall a woman slams into is a term that was coined by catty women because being covert, women prefer psychological warfare when combating each other to disqualify a sexual competitor. Underneath the obvious usefulness of the Wall as an insult lies a more painful truth: the eventual decay of women's sexual appeal – their primary, and for many, only, genuine instrument of power they've ever realized over males to secure their long-term security requirements.
Through the lens of Christ-Centered Therapy, I understand that renunciation of self-love is truly enlightened self-interest since Yahweh knows us better than we know ourselves and loves us more than we love ourselves. Consequently, losing ourselves for his sake eventually allows us to find ourselves. This is exactly what we witness with the Shunammite woman who gave of herself and opened her house and heart to a God-fearing man (2 Kings 4:8-11). She was barren during a time when being barren was considered the worst of curses. To satisfy Elisha's need, she forgot about her own in accordance to Mat 22:39 i.e., she unselfishly sought the best or higher good for the prophet as a demonstration of obeying the second greatest commandment. In response, God inspired Elisha to satisfy her need.
The abovementioned charitable woman illustrated the concept of loving your neighbor as you love yourself. She is the ideal good Samaritan of the old testament. In this dark age, obeying the second greatest commandment requires one to possess the wisdom of a serpent because the hearts of men are deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Consequently, people with ill intentions pretend that they are suffering to take advantage of the undiscerning. This is pretty obvious. The occult part is when an enemy, particularly witches from your household, generously gives you money and when you receive it, in that very transaction you shall be selling your destiny to them. In the same order, Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup.
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