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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 27, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 41, No. 24.

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Practical Thoughts.

UNDULY SENSITIVE.

THOSE who are thus are unhappy, and their course, to say the least, is a source of uneasiness and perplexity to others. What good can result from being in constant fear that somebody has hurt you, or is going to hurt you? that everything which is said to you or concerning you, is aimed at you, and is intended to injure you? that you are slighted? &c. The imagination has much to do in this matter. It is too vivid, and manufactures things which do not exist.
But, as a general thing, this is not the worst feature. Selfishness is at the bottom of this sensitiveness. If self was dead, there would not be so much worrying over seeming, or even real, neglect, and we would not feel so sensitive when our wrongs are pointed out. We would even be calm when accused of sins of which we are not guilty. It will not pay to labor so hard to build up self, our worst enemy. Self is a poor god to worship. It gives bondage and unrest. May the desire of every heart be that self may be wholly crucified, and that God may rule in us fully. Let us learn of Jesus, who was meek and lowly in heart, and we shall find rest from the troubles of sensitiveness, and give others rest from anxiety on our account.