while personwatching at an outdoor theater in Illinois last summer, I saw an example of what love is not, and then turned and saw that in myself.
I want to think about humility tonight so I'm reingesting what God showed me that afternoon.
Wrote:
Love is not petting someone for agreeing with your opinions, boosting your ego, making you feel right or powerful or better than any other human being.
Don't seek this self-glorification in love--you won't find it in the real thing. You don't deserve it in anything. And no one deserves to be your flunky.
Love seeks to glorify God together.
Love learns, is open to growth
is humble.
Love for God's created ones is not buying and settling up for yourself first, living in comfort and building up your identity, prettying yourself and priding yourself on your opinions, tastes.
Humility is deep, deep, deeper still...
Look, see the danger of priding yourself on understanding, or on having opinions, of trying to "make something of yourself"
only God can make something of me.
subtle traps; pride is so see-through and empty.
and all beauty is found in holiness
its Source.
everywhere you see beauty, feel the tingle of tender color in a breeze, a breath, a strain
is a clue, a hint, a taste, just one hue
of the explosion, the color cloud
of the Glorious Son of God.
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i miss you so much right now.
i am drowning in schoolwork and i wish i could somehow laugh about it. i dont know how to not put it off because putting it off is what i do best because i dont like it. i wish i didnt mind being up until 1 when i have to wake up at 7:00 becuase i knew we'd be talking and laughing...perhaps putting it off together. i just miss you.
mel
Oh my Mel, I get all teary because I'm right there with you, right there in the sea of schoolwork and in the missing of you and in the wishing we were just able to take a breath and enjoy Jesus together again. We'll get through this. We will. Goodnight, dearest friend.
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