Society today likes to remedy our problem of fearing man (see yesterday) with the suggestion to love ourselves more.
Well-meaning Christians try to solve the issue with the call to remember that God loves us more than we know.
Neither solution gets at the root of the problem.
The root of the problem is that we humans are still at the center of the picture.
The place where God needs to be.
"The most radical treatment for the fear of man is the fear of the Lord" (19).
We need to think about ourselves less often and about God more often. This will change our perspective of ourselves, of others, of "our" time / gifts / etc, and our relationship with the Lord.
(Ideas paraphrased from Welch's book pages 18-19).
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