You do realize that there is nothing wrong with being privileged, right?
It does matter where and why you are privileged, and how you use your privileges. If you are privileged because of injustice done to other people, or if you use your privileges to oppress or rob other people, then your privileged status is demeaned.
If your privileges come to you through legitimate sources, or you use your privileges for good, then your privileged status has merit.
Being privileged is not a negative, but being underprivileged or oppressed is a negative. It is not a bad thing to have your needs met. It is a sad thing to not have your needs met. Being the recipient of just and legitimate opportunities and blessings is not evil.
There are privileges, which only come from being in a right relationship with God. Those privileges are not to be heaped upon oneself, but they are to be used for the glory of God and the good of other people.
Through our own sin we deserve the judgments and losses that come with sin.
Through the redemptive mercy of God and a right relationship with Him, we are entitled to Divine advantages.
But remember, Divine privileges, Divine entitlement, Divine advantages are provided because of Divine mercy, grace, kindness.
Through the redemptive mercy of God and a right relationship with Him, we are entitled to Divine advantages.
But remember, Divine privileges, Divine entitlement, Divine advantages are provided because of Divine mercy, grace, kindness.
In fact, there are spiritual privileges, entitlements and advantages that are inherent to a right relationship with God, which include justification (deliverance from guilt and condemnation), sanctification (cleansing from personal sins and deliverance from the works of the flesh and sinful living), regeneration (spiritual life), transformation (spiritual and behavioral changes), and the impartation of the Holy Spirit (making us partakers of Divine nature). At the time of our salvation, we are also given love, joy, peace with all the fruit of the Spirit, the mind of Christ (Divine wisdom), the leading of the Holy Spirit (which conforms us to the image of Jesus, guides our daily life), and gifts of the Holy Spirit (which enables us to serve others).
It is essential for saved people to seek a closer, deeper, higher broader, relationship with God through the purifying, empowering and enlightening fullness of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit (subsequent to conversion), and a continued following by faithful obedience and growth in grace. This means we will be open to and eagerly pursue His grace, such as diligently adding to our faith spiritual, excellence; and to spiritual excellence, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, steadfastness (endurance, patience); and to steadfastness, godliness (piety); and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, perfect love.
God's privileges, advantages, entitlement, kindness, blessings, and presence are available to whosoever calls upon the Name of the Lord and walks in His light. God wants to bless and not curse; He wants to draw us to Himself rather than drive us away; He wants to lift us up rather than crush us down. It is our personal free will choice to receive or reject the offer and the commands of God.
The privileges, entitlements, advantages, kindnesses, blessings and presence of God are available to His children. The shame is not that we are the recipients of His goodness, but rather that we choose to live outside of the outpouring of God's benevolence. Legitimate privilege is not a cause of pride, but it should be received and manifested in thanksgiving, humility, in service and love to others. Becoming and being what God wants us to be is not "the works of the flesh," as Satan's sinning religion says, but rather it is the miraculous, Divine, salvation of God in the heart of those who trust and obey God.
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