Victim Mentality

There’s a pervasive victim mentality today that makes people feel that everything is somebody else’s fault. “Somebody else is to blame for my problems,” “My relatives are weird,” “the government is corrupt.” When we hear this litany of complaints for the hundredth time we feel like shouting, “Have you ever thought that you might be the problem?”

When St. Peter wrote to first century Christians, they were living in a time of enormous persecution and difficulty. Even though their tough times were caused by others, he told the Christians to examine themselves to make sure that they weren’t causing their own problems.

There’s a lesson here for us. We need to be honest enough to admit that, even when we cannot do anything to change the people or circumstances around us, we can do something to change ourselves.

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