HOW WELL DO YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR TRUE PERSON? PART 3 - MATERIAL POSSESSION

“For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?” (1 Cor 4:7)

Never build your self esteem on material things; you never came to this world with any of them. There is a big difference between your condition and your position. Your condition is always a physical thing; while your position is your spiritual reality. Also know that nothing physical is designed to stay permanent. (2 Cor. 4:18). Often times our condition and our position look contradictory, but we must always remember under any circumstance that it’s from our position where we took our real identity.

When your identity is taken from your condition, it either gives you depression or pride. Take it from your position and you have a sonship complex. The good news remains that in our position, we are all at the same level; it’s only our conditions that differ. Nobody brought any special skill from heaven; we only come with potentials and capacity which is now given to development here on earth. That is why we need to watch our mindset before doing things. Learn to always start with your position in mind.

Human beings like identifying us with our conditions; hence we need to diligently divorce negative conditions from our mindset notwithstanding what people identify us with. You are what you call yourself much more than what people calls you.

Another beautiful thing to learn is that your present negative condition is a spiritual strategy to lay devil to trap. Wisdom teaches to utilize adversity to advantage. The condition of the Israelites at the Red sea was only used to lay the Egyptian to trap. If there is no need for a challenge, God will never allow it to come to you. And whenever it comes, note that God had first tested it before allowing it. Hence any challenge that God allows is an opportunity for you to shine. (2 Cor. 10:13). Whenever challenge comes, it is not you on trial; it is your capacity of faith on trial. (1 Pet. 1:7; Pro. 24:10,11).