Sam Vaknin nails it when he says that, to narcissists, acceptance, care, and love are "a foreign language" that "is meaningless or even repellent."
Have you ever tried to minister to someone, digging down deep to overwhelm them with sacrificial love, only to feel completely drained, and eventually bitter and resentful, when they get worse instead of better?
If so, you've been the victim of a narcissist.
So often, we're told that love begets love, and it's true, most of the time. The narcissist, however, turns the laws of the universe upside down and inside out. They are the ultimate idolaters; they are hard-hearted self-worshipers, and there is nothing you can do to convert them to Christianity.
Do you see now, how vital it is to ask God about everything you are doing?
Even Paul acknowledged that there were God-defined limits to his ministry, that he wasn't supposed to try and save everyone. Who are we to be any less humble and willing to be led?
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