Overcome the victim mentality

ANCHOR TEXT: “The wicked man flees though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion” Proverbs 28:1.

Twenty years ago, Charles J, Sykes wrote a book titled: ‘A Nation of Victims’ in which he decried the victim mentality that had arisen among people in the United States. In the book’s opening pages, he describes an FBI agent who embezzled two thousand dollars and lost it while gambling in Atlantic City. The man was fired, but won reinstatement after he convinced a court that his tendency toward gambling with other people’s money was a ‘handicap’ and therefore protected under the federal law. Though with the help of a competent lawyer and fabricated evidences he won, but he lived the rest of his life in guilt, and as a victim.

A victim is someone who has guilty conscience toward God and man as a result of certain mistakes or crime truly committed but not convicted. Every sin truly committed but covered up precipitates victim mentality. So, for as long as one feels guilty, the victim mentality reinforces. It is a recipe for continued failure. It births a sense of un worthiness; robs one of the courage to face life; makes one accept or contemplate defeat even before one begins a thing; births an attitude of suspicion; makes one run when no one pursues you; it is a torturing mentality.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “THE VICTIM MENTALITY IS A TORTURING MENTALITY”