i hate egos
August 28th, 2005 by boon
Like mine. Just when I think that I’m all calm and collected, thinking that I’m not getting in the way of other people, God gently slaps me in the face. I’m grateful to Him that he did it in private, instead of exposing my insides all over the place. But yeah, I’m not as nice as I think I am. And it hurts to know that, sometimes.
Matthew 7:1-5 speaks about judging, and I guess I’ve been guilty of this one time too many. Especially whenever I see myself as the innocent one. Oops. If the world were to be a fair place, we wouldn’t be alive for very long. And so God is not fair. He’s just, and He’s merciful.
It just brings me back to the cross, realizing that I’m no better than anyone else, and that I need the same grace and mercy I had the first time I invited Christ into my life, and always will. I just hope that God continues to make me more and more humble, that I won’t be pushing my weight around so blindly.
It’s not good to make a mocking of his name by acting like a fool as his representative.