Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Listening to Beck. Dealing with the news that I have a HUGE tax bill. Late meetings at church Monday, Tuesday and tonight. Up at 4:30 Friday morning to take my vigil stand in front of Planned Parenthood.
Our DRE is at the hospital with his pregnant wife. I may have to step in tonight and teach his class. So I have to spend time preparing while I know that everything may be fine and all the preparation and stomach churning will be for nothing.
I wonder how I can do all the stuff I have to do. It all seems to be too much.
It IS too much, for ME.
Fortunately it doesn’t really depend on me. I just have to show up. God is already there, as He is here. It depends on Him.
My job is to pray for the grace to remember that.
Maybe, almost certainly, vanity is related to fear — to a failure of Faith and Hope. If I’m afraid, on the edge of being overwhelmed, the “old man” says, “It’s up to you! Get to work, make it happen, or drown.”
The new man says, “You are one of His people, one of the sheep of His pasture — it is HE that made you, and not you yourself.”
The grace of humility comes with the grace of faith. It’s part of it, integrated into it.
So, Lord, I believe. Help thou my unbelief so that I can drop this heavy illusion of vanity and take up the easy yoke of your love.
“And being found in fashion as a man,he humbled himself,and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!”
Please do not acknowldge me for that Bible quote.
Here’s the entire Quote from voice in teh wilderness:
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” (Phil. 2:5-8).