Self-pity
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· 5 viewsSorrow or despondency aroused by one’s own suffering or misfortune. It can result from personal loss or suffering, hardship in God’s service or the judgment of God. Its cure is to remember the goodness of God.
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Examples of self-pity as a result of personal loss or suffering
Examples of self-pity as a result of personal loss or suffering
The Israelites in the wilderness
The Israelites in the wilderness
3 And the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
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Job
Job
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Examples of self-pity as a result of hardship in the service of God
Examples of self-pity as a result of hardship in the service of God
Moses
Moses
11 So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid the burden of all these people on me? 12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I beget them, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a guardian carries a nursing child,’ to the land which You swore to their fathers? 13 Where am I to get meat to give to all these people? For they weep all over me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ 14 I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me. 15 If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favor in Your sight—and do not let me see my wretchedness!”
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Elijah
Elijah
4 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”
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Jeremiah
Jeremiah
10 Woe is me, my mother, That you have borne me, A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent for interest, Nor have men lent to me for interest. Every one of them curses me.
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3 ‘You said, “Woe is me now! For the Lord has added grief to my sorrow. I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.” ’
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Examples of self-pity as a result of God’s judgment
Examples of self-pity as a result of God’s judgment
; ; The kings, merchants and sailors will be full of self-pity when they see the destruction of Babylon, because their opportunities for making wealth will be gone.
People calling upon others to pity them
People calling upon others to pity them
21 “Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me!
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Turning to God puts self-pity in its true perspective
Turning to God puts self-pity in its true perspective
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
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