Narcissism is having a view of man as being so important that you react to them in fear, sorrow, guilt, or under the constraints of a process. The narcissistic person speaks to God in man centered words. I do not believe that any man is able to completely experience freedom from the society of man until he has memorized and prayed the Psalms. The Psalms are the only prayers that are focused on God as God is. Narcissism is lowering God through the expression of petition, praise, guilt, fear, and sorrow in false words that use Him as if He were a man. The ultimate measure of true desire that is absent of narcissism is that if someone over heard your private prayers they would react with anger and frustration. Because a person who is united to Christ has no desires for mans acceptance. He prays as if he is the only one on the earth than needs the kind of grace that is transferred by being completely free as the only way that other men can catch it. A person who is narcissistic prays as if he is a necessary vessel that God needs in order to spread the grace.
A person who is narcissistic is one who does not challenge his own thoughts by word and Spirit. He allows himself to wander in his mind. In this sense it he seldom gets to the place of mystery. He seldom experiences the eternal verities of the faith. The mind is like a cup. The amount of liquid represents the presence of word and Spirit. A narcissistic person is one whos cup is half full. The air represents how much he values man and his own life. But a person whos identity is centered in Christ has exhausted the use of the word as He orders his prayers until his cup is filled up. He is so used to finding mystery after meditating and praying Gods word that it becomes the line by which he determines the disposition of a person who is holding onto idols. A person who holds idols seldom experiences conversion. A narcissistic person is used to a secular view of the world so that the things of the world and the value of those things are the motives that move him. I will write more descriptions.
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