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4 Reasons to Slaughter Self Pity

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We can find ourselves in a lot of traps as we're going along, trying to live for Christ and trying to act like one of His. One of the worst is the Self Pity Pit. I confess, I find myself falling into it when I'm really impatient about something in my life or really frustrated. But honestly, there's not much point to it. Instead, self pity is guaranteed to make you even more worse off than you were. And we can find ourselves "indulging" in it over the most ridiculous things. Let me give you a very recent example. After a series of health issues, I started on an elimination diet to see if I could pin point what is making me ill. For those of you who don't know what one is, it's basically where you take certain foods out of your diet for an extended period of time (usually 3-4 weeks). After that, you add one food in at a time for a day or so and see whether it causes a reaction. In other words, it's horrible (whoops, see what I mean? Self