An individual mind and agenda are enmity with God. It breeds pride, it encourages the pleasure of the flesh, and it ultimately cancels reverence to the one who created us and causes us to be in error that we believe that we are like Him, but in reality, we have justified in our minds of some form of equality, giving us a god complex instead. All in the pursuit of happiness or rather to be unique. We all were created unique from the beginning of time. See our path, individually, separate from all else, requires us to make an infinite number of decisions in our lifetime. Those outcomes create a path so unique to us because we are us and no one else. How we are raised, to the influences of circumstances and situations, the impact of different individuals we cross paths with, to the very growth within us, were all leading to the greatest thing we have desired and that is being unique, to be set apart. We were already unique before our conception. Our Father knew how we would be, how we would choose, and the outcome…He is pleased with who we are. He loves us despite our so-called failures. Our greatest uniqueness comes from the decision we make to honor Him, to serve Him, to be like Him in how we change our life to be more in His likeness…not striving to be Him because we never will be. We were only created in His image, not created to be Him.
“Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble” I Peter 5:5.
“A high look, and a proud heart, [and] the plowing of the wicked, [is] sin” Proverbs 21:4.
Fruit of the Flesh vs. Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians 5:19-26.
“Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abrod the earth by myself” Isaiah 44:24.
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations” Jeremiah 1:5.