Are You Awesome or Broken?

The 1970s book I'm OK—You're OK was a best-selling psychological self-help book which most Christians would recognize as psychobabble.

Over the next few decades, as psychology increasingly promoted self-esteem philosophy, our culture shifted from “I'm OK” to “I'm awesome.”

And when someone believes they're awesome, they expect to be treated that way.

No wonder we see so many divorces, family estrangements, church splits, and workplace difficulties. 

The truth is this: I'm not awesome and you're not awesome. I'm broken and you're broken, and we need God to fix us. 

When we become Christians, we recognize this and realize our need to renew our hearts and minds in Christ (Ephesians 4:20-24; Philippians 2:12-13). You could say we are in recovery and making progress, but we're not perfect yet. That won't happen until we see Christ face-to-face.

We learn to have a realistic view of ourselves (Romans 12:3) and a deep desire “that [our] love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that [we] may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ” (Philippians 1:9-10).

Most importantly, we understand that God is awesome and we aren't: 

“For the LORD Most High is awesome, the great King over all the earth.” Psalm 47:2  

 

And we make it our goal to honor Him, not ourselves: 

 

“Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.” 1 Timothy 1:17

 

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For more insights into this subject, see Jesus Rescues Junk Like Me and Awesome, Really? 

 

Lies in Disguise offers insights into the self-esteem movement and how it has promoted false teachings in the church. And that is just one of the subjects addressed in this helpful book. Find out more about it here: Lies in Disguise. 

 

 

 

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