76. HUMILITY STINKS
Posted by:
SeLahGirl on
July 3, 2008 at
11:50AM EST
So I keep trying to write positive things but the negative just
seems more prevalent and needing to be addressed... so does that make
me a negative person?... maybe, but what can I do but write about the
things that God speaks to me day to day. Should I shun the things he
seems to be saying simply because it's not politically correct to talk
of anything except puppies and flowers and sunshine... singing
polly-waddle-doodle all the day?...
Would Lamentations have ever been written if political correctness
dominated the day then, like it does in the modern day church?...
(and the parallels between the prophecies then and America's rebellion against God today are frightening btw).
so anyway, here's what came to mind as I sat with the Lord today and chatted over coffee...
HUMILITY STINKS
Life teaches that people are to be second. They are not to be first or
third, they are to be second. It is a truth that God ordains, and yet
so many so quickly manipulate that truth when their selfish desires are
threatened.
Arrogance rises up so easily in us. We are in
constant need of Christ. We walk in denial about so much, reading and
hearing how we are to die daily. Yet, we fail to do it. We fail to do
it because in our arrogance, we have convinced ourselves that we have
died once and it is enough. We assume to be God, rather than to be like
Christ...
We forget that the enemy leaves us and waits for
a more opportune time. He knows that self will eventually rise up
again, full of life and vigor. Scripture cautions us to be wise, to be
ready to crawl up on that altar each day and to die. Instead, we
remember that time in our past that we resisted temptation, and in our
arrogance we deny our weakness and our sin. We convince ourselves that
it was and is enough, causing self and arrogance to live on and to grow
fat.
We become Pharisee.
We become full of Self,
full of arrogance, manipulating all to keep from being made to die
daily -- or more than we think is necessary (despite the wisdom and the
word of God). We contradict what He has said without blinking an eye,
we trump the will of God, thinking we have justified our rebellion with
words of our own. We hear and we talk but we so seldom do the will of
God. His will is for us to be ready and willing to die daily... not
just in conversation or for a show... but in our heart and in our
actions...
People talk of being humble as though it is a
choice to be such. Humility is not a choice, it is a consequence of
sacrifice and death. It is when someone strips you, robs you, violates
you, and leaves you bloody on the ground for dead... because of their
own selfishness. Humility is asking God to forgive them as you die.
Only then is a person truly humble, only then does the fragrance of
humility rise from us, from our dead and rotting flesh. Only then does
self die on any particular day.
So many ppl today think
that being humble is a walk thru a flower garden responding softly to
anyone who speaks to you... never raising your voice and caressing the
flowers as you float by them
*insert puking smilie*
Humility is a stench, not a cologne to be sprinkled over our weighty
arrogance. We can write the word on a blinging badge and flash it
around to make ourselves appear holy and sweet and yummier than those
around us... but Walter could wear Shananay's tag just as easily.... He
might fool strangers or ppl that just want their shoes shined, but the
people that know him, that have to work with him... they're gonna know
that he is Walter. And the nametag will become a tag of counterfeit, of
an impostor, rather than an identity worth honoring. The result will be
a stench of the vomit of God, rather than the stench of the rotting
flesh of Self,
... the stench of hypocrisy, rather than humility.
We stink.
being humble will never change that fact
but being like Christ will make it a stench worthy of honor, pleasing
to God, bringing him glory and not ourselves. We need to stop trying to
be pretty, and we need to return to being people of integrity
<3
