12 Nov 2011 13 Comments

Free from the Stronghold of Nagging

Everything on earth is subject to change and subject to our imperfect [human] intrusion. We insist on perfection. But perfection is illusive without God. It cannot be found in human ability or capability.

Nagging destroys.

Some of us are so stressed out about perfection that we incessantly pine over it. After all, perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. And in this case the beholder [in the flesh] is imperfect.

Because we are imperfect, we can’t see this. So we begin to find fault outside of ourselves. In trying to perfect imperfectly, the beholder nags.  If left unchecked or unnoticed by the host [the nag], a stronghold of nagging sets in.

This stronghold [nagging] can and will drive others out of our lives. It will imprison us and blind us in a dark world. With only our nagging thoughts to keep us company, depression quickly comes knocking. If we allow depression in, it will invite other strongholds.

Once in, these strongholds join the stronghold of nagging to push us, or someone else, to the edge. Suicide, divorce, murder, sickness, broken homes, broken relationships, and all kinds of evil takes over if the stronghold of nagging doesn’t leave.

What can we do to insure our freedom from this stronghold? There’s only one answer.

the first of the Epistles to the Colossians

5 Biblical tips to end nagging:

1. Resolve that humans are imperfect without God. God is love and the only source of perfection.

Job 11:7 Can you find out the deep things of God, or can you by searching find out the limits of the Almighty [explore His depths, ascend to His heights, extend to His breadths, and comprehend His infinite perfection]?

Psalm 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

2. Come to maturity in Christ. The closer we get to understanding the things of God, the closer we are to seeing true perfection.

Luke 8:14 And as for what fell among the thorns, these are [the people] who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked and suffocated with the anxieties and cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not ripen (come to maturity and perfection).

Romans 5:11 Not only so, but we also rejoice and exultingly glory in God [in His love and perfection] through our Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom we have now received and enjoy [our] reconciliation.

3. Allow love to replace nagging in your life. Love covers a multitude of sins and chases fear [of imperfection] away.

1 Corinthians 13:4 Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.

Proverbs 10:12 Hate starts quarrels, but love covers every wrong.

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love's complete perfection].

4. Pray for spiritual discernment. When we try to see things with our five senses we’re limited by these senses [the flesh]. As God for spiritual understanding.

Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish and so senseless and so silly? Having begun [your new life spiritually] with the [Holy] Spirit, are you now reaching perfection [by dependence] on the flesh?

Ephesians 4:13 [That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the [ full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ’s own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him.

5. Receive Christ and learn. If you haven’t received Christ you will never gain perfection. Nor will you see it in others. Nagging can become a way of life to a woman or even a man [abuse] who is not truly in Christ and seeking His way in all areas of life.

Colossians 1:19 For it has pleased [the Father] that all the divine fullness (the sum total of the divine perfection, powers, and attributes) should dwell in Him permanently.

1 John 4:17 In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world.

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