The Great Antidote to Entitlement

I sincerely abhor it when Millennials are assaulted for being entitled. The basic actuality is we're living in an entitled world. None of us, regardless of our age, is invulnerable to feeling entitled.

Take me as a 'for example.' One of my most noteworthy epiphanies came because of perusing John Townsend's The Entitlement Cure. I had what Dr John calls a 'pocket privilege' - it's lined up with my identity. I'm a partner, so I get a kick out of the chance to be valued. When I'm not in a decent place I can tend to feel I merit appreciation. This isn't beneficial for me or any other person so far as that is concerned.

I found that the word 'merit' sits at the core of qualification. In case we're straightforward, we recognize we as a whole have holy aspects of our lives where exceptional tenets of privilege apply - symbols of the heart where, when others transgress, it summons outrage inside us. These are risk zones where sin sneaks needing to stay concealed, holding up to be shielded, justifying security. We ensure symbols to our inevitable risk.

Be that as it may, I have discovered the long haul, economical cure to privilege... Dr John rambles in his book about what are the side-effects of this thing. What's more, there are such a large number of! Its majority could be summed up in the idea of assuming liability, however there is something more hyper-pertinent.

The colossal antitoxin to privilege is appreciation. 

It is difficult to merit anything when we're appreciative. 

Truly, obviously, that we don't merit anything. We really merit not as much as nothing. (Truly, obviously, God knows we have necessities and He gives.) But in our entitled age we don't care to peruse that we don't merit anything.