Glorify God...no self-pity here

Are we glorifying God if we are feeling sorry for ourselves?

What would happen if God felt sorry for Himself? Started thinking of all the times man has turned its back on Him and all His glorious nature? Feeling hurt, resentful, pained by the actions of man in this sphere of thought? What would happen then if God was that type of god and turned His back on us? That is how it feels sometimes. But can God really turn His ‘back’ on His own image and likeness, man? Would that be possible? It feels that way at times?

No! It is untrue and actually impossible, for Mind, God, fills all space with His Love, Wisdom, Perfect Divine Selfhood. God created man, His perfect idea, to be His very ‘image and likeness’¹. Man cannot really turn his back on God and God cannot turn His ‘back’ to Man. It is only a man-made suggestion. It is not an actual possibility.

God sees the Real Man has happy beloved, joyful, kind, the image of Himself. Self-pity sees the dream, the unreal, the ego and vanity of hurt feelings. God expresses the Real through His offspring, Man. Mortal man sees through the eyes of self-glorification. He is rebuffed if he isn’t glorified in other’s thoughts and actions towards himself. Mortal man is a demi-god of the devil and has no true creation, existence, or power. Divine Man, the image of God, created to glorify and magnify God, imaging forth all of God’s nature, character and divinity, sees only what God is doing and manifesting.

God is to be the only One glorified, praised, loved. This love is the love of Love and it is all-inclusive. The vanities are self-absorbed, self-centered love that darkens the thoughts of the mortal and its self-aggrandizement. God is the One and Only Good. Man, the image of God is the witness to this Divine Glory.

The importance of this thought is brought out in three of the four gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke. They all write of Christ Jesus when “one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?” and Jesus said, “Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.”²

It is highly important for us to emulate the Christ example. To awake to the realization of God and His perfect idea, Man. It is recommended that we follow as closely to the Christ example in our daily lives and as quickly as possible. If we fall for the opposite of the Christ example we are letting the anti-christ use us and therefore abuse us into doing wrong. The right at every point is to see and understand the example of the Christ and to follow it. This Christ is in us all and must be glorified in all of our actions and thoughts.

Instead of crying all the day long, “Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.”³

We must see where true comfort lies. The Comforter and comfort comes from the knowledge that God created man already loved, already perfect, ready to be of His service, His witness to His Allness and Good, not self.

Selfhood is divine. It is not a mortal, personal sense of self. Selfhood is what God is doing and manifesting. Selfhood is pure of the personal senses. It is the reflection of God’s perfect Divine Will. How important it is then for willfulness, sadness, hurt feelings to be turned from immediately and the glorification be always to and for God, Love.

How? Mary Baker Eddy, the discover and founder of Christian Science instructs, “Prayer, watching, and working, combined with self-immolation, are God’s gracious means for accomplishing whatever has been successful done for the Christianization and health of mankind.”⁴  

‘Self-immolation’ isn’t self abuse. It is a turning away from a false sense of self to see what mankind is, the reflection, the image and likeness of God. It is a turning away from a personal sense of self and its false sense of self-glorification and a turning to God’s gracious expression manifested in Man.

Mrs. Eddy also shares, “Self-forgetfulness, purity, and affection are constant prayers.”⁵ AND “St. Paul wrote, ‘Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,’ that is, let us put aside material self and sense, and seek the divine Principle and Science of all healing.”⁶

If the sting of self-pity, hurt feelings, the ‘poor me, they hurt me’ tries to set in, Let us turn from these anti-chirst like views and turn to glorify the only perfect One, God. He it is that is to be glorified at all times. Let us turn away from sense and self to Soul, God, and magnify Him in all our ways, views, thoughts and activities. Let us remember that only God is to be praised and not we ourselves. Vanity, ego, self-centered thoughts must be put down, removed from our thinking. The magnification of God and all of His Good is to be glorified.

Let us pray, “To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever.  Amen.”⁷

Gentle hugs


1 The King James Version of The Holy Bible Genesis 1 vs. 26
2 ibid Matthew 19 vs. 17

3 ibid Psalms 69 vs. 20

4 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy page 1 line 6

5 ibid page 15 line 26

6 ibid page 20 line 30

7 The King James Version of the Holy Bible Jude 1 vs. 25