Know Thyself

 

There’s an important and often neglected part of life. I believe our knowledge in this area is a key to our success in life. This part of my life is called self-awareness. I think if we know ourselves we can have a huge advantage in life and probably be further along in life than the majority of people. However, we can often find ourselves lacking in this area.

One area that we can identify when we are self-aware is our strengths and weaknesses. I find that it’s important for us to be aware of our strengths and weaknesses. This can help us to improve in certain areas and capitalize in others. I think this could make a huge difference in our lives.

There’s a book called StrengthsFinder 2.0. In this book there is a good test you can take online. It will basically tell you at the end of the test what your top 5 strength areas are. The descriptions of each strength are really pretty accurate. You can kind of end up feeling like the test is almost ‘reading your mail’, so to speak. I took this test and I found it to be quite helpful. I guess you could say it helped me become more self-aware, or the things I was already aware of it kind of just confirmed for me. My top five strengths in order were, intellection, restorative, individualization, empathy, and achiever. So, Intellection wasn’t a total surprise because of my tendency to be a deep thinker. This is definitely something that helps me in writing my blogposts so that I have ideas to write about. Restorative, according to their definition means that a person is good at finding a problem and what it takes to resolve it. Individualization means a person can identify strengths and weaknesses of each individual in a group and how each can work together most effectively. Empathy is pretty self-explanatory, in that it means a person can sense another person’s feelings and see things from their perspective. Achiever just means hard worker and gets satisfaction from being productive. But these are just to explain how knowledge of this can help me capitalize on what I’m really good at.

So, these are just examples of my results. Notice it doesn’t tell me any of my weaknesses. I guess if they did they would have to call it WeaknessFinder 2.0. And I’m sure I would be more reluctant to share those areas with you.

So, if we can capitalize on the areas we are strong, we can pursue areas where we have better chances of being successful. Of, course we need to shore of our weaknesses as well, and in that way we can become a more well-rounded person.

 

…Let’s go deeper

I believe knowing ourselves is not only an area we should be concerned with, but one in which God is concerned with as well. While it’s important to know our strengths, it’s important to know our weaknesses as well. In 1 John 3:19-22 it says, “And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.” See, if we can know our hearts, this is one of the greatest things. Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?” So, there is one person who knows our hearts. And if we want to know our hearts, we can ask him and he will show us areas in our hearts that aren’t right. We can also know where our hearts are right. We can know if we’ve truly forgiven someone else and have no animosity towards them. We can also know that God has forgiven us like described in 1 John 3:21. This gives us confidence, when we know God has forgiven us.

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1 John 2:1 says, “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:” Finally we know that when we have fallen short in areas of our lives, God is there ready to forgive. Jesus is our advocate with the Father. This is the comfort we have. He will not only help reveal to us our hearts but forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 3:19-22 it says, “And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, [then] have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.”

Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

2 Corinthians13:5 says, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”

1 John 2:3-5: “And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.”

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