There was a time, back in the day, when I worried that I was not humble enough. Then I came to see that I would have to get humble before that could be a problem. After which I realized there is no "humble enough." Every waking moment is a realistic chance of our being humbled...and being humbled by our own design. The best we can hope for is enough sense to see our part in it and to take responsibility for it. There...that is humility aborning.
And, no, believing that we are nothing but worms in the dust is not humility...it is ego on parade, dressed up as Less Than Anybody Thus Worthy of Note.
Fear of financial insecurity, fear of people, fear of anything is just another way to stay stuck in the belief that our fear has more pizzazz than God has power.
Money is not the root of all evil...it is the love of money that is the root of all evil. There is nothing wrong with money or of prestige and power...it is our obsessive desire for money, prestige and power that beggars us.
God loves us just exactly as we are right this very minute. On a good day, I love you a tish more than I love me...then humility whispers, "Liar, liar, pants on fire."
Thank you.
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