Dearest Saints,
When I do any series involving any issues that we need to deal with, I use my past experiences as a means to convey a message in order that I can always bring hope and encouragement to everyone in every case. This way, people know I speak from my experience and not simply look up any title to talk about or use anyone else as an example of what not to do. One of the symptoms I have had to deal with in my past was the fact that I often felt inferior, which I believe is a greater problem than most people think. The nice thing about dealing with any negative issues we need to deal with is that there is always hope to overcome this and every other issues because of the Grace and mercies of God. To start, I would like you to open your Bible and please read Luke 12:47, 48 where the emphasis is the fact that when people receive more from God, God Himself is going to require and demand all the more who have received more. Also, read Romans 14:10-19 and focus on the last verse which is the key issue to realize why we do what we do. The end result of why we do what we do is to always remember that our purpose for doing anything should always be to promote peace, encourage one another, edify one another and do all out of love one for another, because love always believes the best for one another (1 Cor 13:7) and should always bring out the best in everyone, which should always be our intent in the first place (Rom 14:19).
I would like to start by getting our focus on the right direction for people who deal with feeling inferior. When God creates man (men & women), He never created any man or woman more superior or inferior to one another. Therefore, everyone has equal opportunity to do His will. Society today will make many believe that they are superior or inferior to others simply because of their “so-called” natural talents they have attributed. We need to know that any gift or talent that anyone inherits is always a gift from God in the first place. God can strip anyone of any talents at any time. When God gives more talents to people, He is going to require a greater account from those who have received much. Just like you just read in Luke, when a person has been given much, much is going to be required of them. Sometimes, it is a blessing to only receive few talents, because we are not often willing to accept responsibility when we are going to be accountable. Many times, people want to know more and want to have more, but they are not prepared to accept responsibility or be accountable to the extent which God is going to require. When I felt I had very little talents when I was younger, I can now thank God for that. I know if God were to have given me more talents than I could handle, I would have been lifted up with pride, which is the very thing that would have destroyed me (Prov 16:18). Just like lucifer, who was once Gods highest angels was given more, he was lifted up with pride which caused him to be forever condemned and cast out of Heaven (Isa 14:12-19). I believe it is by the goodness and Grace of God that He often withholds from giving us more than we ought to receive because certain people are not able to maintain a Christ-like character to handle more. One thing to test this is when we live from paycheque to paycheque, will we remain the same when we win the multi-million dollar loto?
The problem when people feel inferior is that they compare their own man-made ability to other peoples natural ability and fail to see all of these as God given, because no man will ever be able to boast in himself. When we look at the servant who was given five talents and another servant was given two talents, God was equally pleased with both of them (Matt 25:20-23). He did not show greater pleasure simply because one had more talent than the other, because God expects more from the one who was given more in the first place. I truly believe if a person was given 10 talents and used 9 of the ten, God would be more pleased with the person who only received two talents and uses both talents. Therefore, it is not the amount of talents that God is pleased with, He is pleased when we use what He has given us. It is impossible to try to work with three talents when God may have only gifted you with two talents. Otherwise, we are trying to accomplish an agenda on our own strength and not by what God has gifted us, which will never work. This is the initial truth that people need to know when dealing with an inferiority spirit.
When we know it is only by His Spirit working through people, do you suppose that Gods Spirit is any less capable working through you as anyone else in this world? Is not the same Spirit that gives gifts to everyone by the same Spirit? (1 Cor 12:4-9) Therefore, its never a matter of what we can do in the natural. The problem we see is when a person is dealing with an inferiority complex, they are not cooperating with the Spirit of God. In other words, they rely on themselves lacking any attributes of certain talents. So they are basing their “so-called talents” by their standard rather than seeing how powerful God is and what He is able and willing to do through willing vessels who will dare to believe that He can do mighty things through anybody! When you think of Moses and how he commented to God that He could not use him because he was a man of slow speech and of a slow tongue (Exod 4:10,11), God was not pleased with Moses because he was trusting in his natural ability rather than focusing on the awesome ability that God is able to do through him to deliver His chosen people from Egypt. God was not able to initially do His work through Moses until God confronted his inferiority complex.
We need to see from this illustration that anyone who feels inferior needs to realize that this is a powerful deceptive weapon that the enemy uses against many people. People who feel inferior hinder the wonder working power of God who is able and willing to work mightily in their lives. It is a horrible deterrent and a deceptive tactic the enemy uses to rob many Christians of their God given ability and potential for Gods Spirit to work through them. When we continue on, we will recognize the symptoms of a person dealing with an inferior spirit and realize that this is not only very deceptive, but can also be very destructive within the body if we don’t learn to recognize the symptoms, learn the need to deal with it and overcome this by the Grace of God.
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In the Matchless Name of Jesus
Richard
Associate Director
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