“I am the Joslin and I am Awesome“
This is a statement from the fake world of TV wrestling from a wrestler called The Miz not Joslin. Obviously this is his Token line that he says after every good thing or bad that he does. He says this line in effort to make him look good or tough[1] ( If slamming down on the ring mat 20 or 30 times is not enough). Some people I would imagine like him and others don’t but this is a very cocky thing to say in the manner he is speaking. Knowing that in the fake world of wrestling there is no room for humility[2] unless you are in trouble or submitting to someone else by force and even then this is not always the case. All of this is not to say that you are to have a bad self esteem in fact you should have a good one. Wikipedia states Self Esteem as reflect of a person’s overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth.[3] As humans we all have time when we have issues with self esteem and we half to build ourselves back up. Or we see someone else who is having problems with self esteem or self worth and we do nothing to help figuring it is there problem. There are a few people who will walk across the room to listen or help but in a world of darkness that is a rare trait.
Cockiness and a over abundant self esteem is displayed week after week in this little world of TV wrestling. Yet there is a Huge fowling of people the show Monday night raw is the highest-rated regularly scheduled program on cable television, and is the longest running episodic entertainment series in television history. After those facts tell me what you think the chances are of people believing not only what they see but the emotional aspects also. I think they are way too good of a chance that people could be led astray[4] buy these false beliefs and that is exactly what the enemy wants us to believe. Sometimes in secret other wrestlers stalk there adversaries in hopes that they can afflict damage or lead them astray down a bad path. We have a enemy that does the same thing with us. 1Peter 5:8 states Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. This real life is starting to sound a lot like wrestling. On TV when one of the wrestlers is tired and battered they half to make it to their corner to tag in a fresh wrestler to take over for them. Unlike TV we do not half to make it to our corner all we half to do is ask and pray.[5] So in conclusion unlike the cocky, over confident wrestlers who can matches where there is 2 on 2 or 2 on 3 we have the hardest match yet. We have the forces of evil verses us. But wait we have other people or friends in our match that may help with the odds but in the end we have the ultimate partner in our match. We have the Trinity on our side and I am glad I am on the winning side of this Total Victory. [6]
[1] Romans 12: 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
[2] Proverbs 15: 33 The fear of the LORD [is] the instruction of wisdom, And before honor [is] humility.
[3] Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think [of himself] more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
Mat 22:39 You shall Love your neighbor as yourself.
1 John 2:28 “And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.”
Psalm 118:8 “It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.”
1 John 5:14 “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:”
[4] Isaiah 53: 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
[5] Luke 11: 9-10 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
[6] Revelation 1:8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, [the] Beginning and [the] End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”