There is hardly anyone who has not at some time experienced a deep feeling of inadequacy. Many of us are overwhelmed by an appalling sense of inferiority and seeking to overcome this feeling of inferiority should be one of the first and basic conditions of life.

Inferiority complex is one of the most stagnating, crushing and strangulating conditions of the human personality. It distorts the personality and plunges it into the abyss of inner conflicts

We believers look to the Holy Bible which is our manual, the Book of laws, the Word of ABBA FATHER who left nothing unsaid to make sure we are able to use His teaching in mastering the challenges we go through in this life.

One of the most beautiful examples in all scripture is Zacchaeus found in the Book of Luke 19. Zacchaeus was an individual who was plagued with a sense of inferiority and who later overcame that sense of inferiority because of his devotion and allegiance to Jesus Christ. Zacchaeus was a man who felt a deep sense of inferiority because of his size. He was small; a very little man and because of this he felt inferior. He felt that he was not accepted.

A lot of people try to overcome their inferiority complex by fleeing to a world of fantasy, daydreaming and completely turning to the world of illusion. And so the things that they cannot do in actual life they believe that they are doing it anyway through daydreaming, some finding themselves the victims of endless, meaningless and crippling daydreams. One of the reasons that many people become drunkards or addicts to substances is because they start out trying to get away from an inferiority complex, and that's the way they try to drown it out. And in the midst of their inferiority complex, the addictions help them to escape the feeling of limitations, they become what they are not when they are sober.

The escape can also be living over budget because some people will spend their money on expensive clothes just to keep up with certain people, others escape by spending time watching certain programs or on the net; and many other ways.

Pastor Dr. Mensa Otabil reminds us in this sermon, that the Bible still is the all time best manual and through Jesus Christ overcome all obstacles to find the utmost inner peace of God.

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