the sickness of Self- rightEousness

has a simple cure.

Do you ever feel anxious… frustrated… disappointed… impatient…angry… exasperated… defensive… lonely…?

Your problem isn’t unique.  Your condition is pervasive in all humanity.

What’s the problem? You suffer from self-righteousness. 

We don’t mean the arrogant, or narcissistic, or religious Pharisaic kind of self-righteousness.

You suffer from a self-righteous sickness birthed from a universal lie. Everyone’s fallen human nature craves this kind of self-righteousness... 

What is self-righteousness?

Those negative feelings are not supposed to be “normal”. They simply come from the oldest lie on earth.

The lie can be summed up like this:

“I must make myself good… because I can’t or don’t want to be bad… and I don’t want bad things to happen to me”  

If your heart doesn’t want you to be bad, the only way you can stop being bad in your mind is to accuse others as being worse than you.

This kind of self-righteousness causes you to judge others and blame others (even to the point of subtle abuse) as the reason why you’re not good enough or safe enough. This type of self-righteousness makes you self-protective, self-centered, self-seeking, and often times judgmental and unforgiving.

Read here for new research revealing how self-righteousness commonly manifests in work settings…

Whether it’s trying to be a good parent, or a good neighbor, or a good employee, or a good student, or a good kid…  you can’t escape the urge to be self-righteous:   a self-made good person.

And when you realize you’re not measuring up (because of comparison, or criticism, or abuse, or need…), you can’t help but feel like you’re “bad”. This only drives you further into the deception, and leads you into more and more bad behaviors.

Our negative behaviors toward ourselves and others are a response to the internalized craving for self-righteousness.

Self-righteousness ultimately steals your God-intended unconditional love, godly identity and selfless nature.

Is it really this simple?

If God is supposed to be good, why does humanity have this terrible fallen nature? Did God do this, or…?

What did humanity “fall” from? It fell from the belief that there is a freely given holy and pure and true righteousness that was meant to live at home inside every human.  It fell from carrying the true nature of God… who is perfect unselfish love. 

Most people don’t even know they’re doing this.  But the self-righteous lie manifests everywhere! 

It’s evident in your feelings:  frustration, or fear, or anxiety…  anger, impatience… or lust… greed or pride… disappointment, frustration, irritation… or revenge… or any other unloving selfish, self-focused, self-protective desire or need.

It ALSO drives all social dominance, narcissism, aggression… violence, bullying, abuse.

How do I Get rid of self-righteousness? 

You can’t try harder to make yourself “good”… that only births more self-righteousness. To get rid of the source of your bad feelings and actions, you must go to the source of selflessness.

This requires you to do something counterintuitive (counter to your human nature). You must do less by learning to receive more.

Your original design was good, selfless, righteous. And the good news is you can have it back for free! You only have to be willing to receive it as a gift.

To learn more about shedding your “fallen” self-righteous human nature and receiving the gift of your original good nature (true righteousness), click here…