Superiority Complex
Renungan Harian / 30 April 2015
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Yenny Kartika Official Writer
1472Mark
12:30
‘And you shall love
the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind,
and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
Bible
Reading for a Year
[bible]psalm80[/bible]; [bible]roman8[/bible]; [bible]deute7-8[/bible]
Superiority complex
is a mental disorder, which one is motivated by the desire to achieve perfection
in every aspect of life. According to Adler, a psychologist, since man is born
into the world, he is weak and helpless. The weak condition includes physical
weakness or disability, being spoiled since he was little until he was an adult,
and being neglected by the family for they never care for him, and he lacks
affection and praise from parents.
These things can
result in the child experiencing superiority complex, where he was always
trying to be perfect in every way in the public. Someone who had superiority
complex actually hides an inferior feeling or inferiority in him. For example,
the person is always being cocky or arrogant and trying to dominate others or
trying to become more dominant in all respects, including trying to dominate
the conversation during a discussion.
However, the real him
was actually tortured by his own weakness or deficiency, either physical or
mental weakness due to being ignored by people surround him. Thus, in certain
ways he would try to attract others’ attention so that he gets the attention,
praise or flattery from them.
People who have
superiority complex have desire to be recognized by their surroundings. For
example, someone who acts rich, smart, beautiful, and so on, when in fact he doesn’t.
It proves that he is not honest with himself, as well as to others. In other words,
he is wearing a "mask". People are doing so because they do not want
to be despised by many people, when in fact nobody would despise them.
God does not want
us to be inferior. He never asks us to be who we aren’t. He knows what we need,
and gives us what we need, not what we want. We could have worried about our
weaknesses and flaws as something bad, but not so with God. In fact, other
people may not necessarily see it as a bad thing. Therefore, please accept who
we are. Never compare yourself with anyone else as if they’re better than you!
Maximize what you have, and accept whatever your situation is, which is already
irreversible.
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Apakah Anda rindu menerima Yesus sebagai Tuhan dan Juruslamat pribadi dalam hidup Anda?
Ikuti doa ini sekarang:
“Tuhan, saya mengakui bahwa saya orang berdosa. Saya membutuhkan Engkau. Saya percaya bahwa darahMu sanggup menghapuskan segala dosa dan kesalahanku. Saat ini, saya mengundang Engkau, Yesus Kristus, masuk dalam hati dan hidupku menjadi Tuhan dan Juruslamatku. Saya menyerahkan hidupku bagiMu dan melayaniMu.
Dalam nama Yesus aku berdoa. Amin”
