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How the Idol of Self Preservation is Resisting Your Calling

What once helped you survive will eventually keep you bound. Self-preservation becomes an idol when it replaces surrender. When self-preservation goes unchecked, it quietly hardens into pride. Not the loud, arrogant kind, but the subtle belief that I know what’s safest for me. It sounds like wisdom. It feels responsible. But it resists dependence on God.“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6). Humility, in this context, is not thinking less of yourself, it’s trusting God more than your coping mechanisms.

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