You want to hear about how awesome, brilliant, and fantastic you are. There is no chance to consider whether you might be awful, dull and insignificant. You are not interested in the truth. You want validation that you are on the right path, regardless of whether that is true or not. This unholy obsession with personal vindication will separate you from the Spirit of Truth and Justice. You will be opened up to the ministry of lies, deceit and familiar spirits. As you can guess, this ministry is headed by the devil. It seduces you and leads you to complete destruction.
Consider 2 Timothy 4:3-4, “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths” (ESV). Something is amiss when you curate teachers and advisors around your lewd passions. Your passions, fueled by lust and greed will take you further away from the true nature of things. You will wander off into myths and fiction. How do you operate day-to-day with an ideology that is not based on truth and substance, and yet, expect to succeed?
If you cannot stomach feedback, you cannot succeed in the real world. The universe does not care about your feelings. Your relationships and marriage will crash. It will crash your business. A good way to check your true state is to consider the last time your conscience countered your actions. You claim to be led by the spirit of God with an inner witness, but you cannot remember the last time that inner witness stood against your will. You have seared your heart already, and you can no longer trust that spirit. There is a need to seek truth and feedback at all times. Stop positioning your heart for what you want to hear. Position for the truth, the truth will make you whole.
