Sunday, 12 July 2026
SELF-CONDEMNATION KEEPS US BACK
Good Morning!!!
SELF-CONDEMNATION KEEPS US BACK
Around the Year with Emmet Fox
July 9
People who are honestly trying to follow the spiritual life
often make the mistake of being too hard on themselves.
Because they do not seem to be progressing
as fast as they would naturally like,
or because they find themselves
repeating some old fault
that they thought they had completely overcome,
they feel discouraged,
and condemn themselves mercilessly.
All this is foolish.
If you are doing your best
to use what Truth you know, at present,
you are doing all that you have a right
to expect of yourself.
Don't be impatient with yourself—
but this does not mean
that you are to be lazy or complacent.
Handle yourself as a wise parent
handles an obstreperous child—
kindly, patiently, but with gentle firmness,
not expecting too much too quickly,
but foreseeing inevitable growth and improvement.
“and all of you are children
of the highest”
Psalm 82:6
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