By Apostle Alex Adusei Agyemang The Christian is charged not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. You are to think highly of yourself because you are an heir of God but not more highly than you ought to think. In your thinking highly of yourself, there is a boundary you are not to cross. What is that boundary and what did Paul mean by you not thinking more highly than you ought to think? To think of yourself more highly than you are supposed to think is thinking that you are better than your Christian brother or sister. Paul went on further to explain that we will all not be equal, the same way the members or parts of the human body don’t have the same functions. It is the creator’s decision, His delight in causing us to differ from one another but you are wrong to base on that to assume that you are better than your brother or sister. Such thoughts are devilish. You have to understand that by the creator’s own design, you are not going to be the best in everything, there are things that others will have more than you. It is even the lack of this wisdom that there is a lot of divorce among Christians. They are always comparing their husbands and wives to others. Oh! This woman is more beautiful than my wife, oh! This man is educated and my husband is not. They entertain all these kinds of devilish thoughts. Why should you compare yourself to someone before you will be happy or sad? All this amounts to spiritual immaturity. The Corinthian Christians had this behavior and that took Paul aback. It was appalling to him. “However, brothers and sisters, I could not talk to you as to spiritual people, but [only] as to worldly people [dominated by human nature], mere infants [in the new life] in Christ!I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Even now you are still not ready. You are still worldly [controlled by ordinary impulses, the sinful capacity]. For as long as there is jealousy and strife and discord among you, are you not unspiritual, and are you not walking like ordinary men [unchanged by faith]?…….1 Corinthians 3:1-3AMP How sad! He refers to them as people dominated by the human nature, spiritual infants. Be sober in your thinking. As long as you live, comparing yourself with others, you wont be able to walk in sincere love. You will always be pretending to love. Be sober! God bless you! Weekly Prayer · Pray and intercede for unsaved souls in your family, immediate and far · Pray for a harvest of souls into Light embassy ministries Scriptural reference: John 4:35, 2 Peter 3:9, 1 Timothy 2:4, Acts 16:31,
