Pray for Humility
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advanced for us to do."
Ephesians 2: 8-10
Today I realized how important it is to be meek. Meekness, not weakness, but strength under control. All my life, it seems as if I have been taught to be assertive, aggressive, to pursue whatever I want or need to the best of my ability. Sometimes I think I get lost in that. I forget to slow down, to take time to think before I act or speak. And then I get brash. I tear down. And even though I intend to do otherwise, I fail to encourage or build up.
A teacher of mine once told me that the ends justify the means. But more and more I feel like...what end is there, that you could achieve, that is desirable and beneficial for all, that could be justified by any means necessary? Maybe it isn't all about the end-point, but the process. Seeing that we're all works in progress, it's all about how we develop, how we pick up those soft skills, the intangible things that direct us, shape us into what we are, guide our thoughts and our actions. I suppose I'm thinking about all this because I wonder how I will dispense care as a doctor in future. In my haste to make sense of things, to intervene and to treat, where will I slow down to care for a patient? Or when I work with a colleague? When will I stop being so concerned with the things that do not have feelings?
1 Peter 5:5 says that God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. He knows that we require humility in order to admit that we are unable to deal with sin and its effects on our own, and that we need a Saviour. Only in humility are we able to fully embrace what God has offered to us - Salvation, His power, a relationship with Him.
Lord, let me not be proud, that I will not be a stumbling block to those around me, and to myself.
Ephesians 2: 8-10
Today I realized how important it is to be meek. Meekness, not weakness, but strength under control. All my life, it seems as if I have been taught to be assertive, aggressive, to pursue whatever I want or need to the best of my ability. Sometimes I think I get lost in that. I forget to slow down, to take time to think before I act or speak. And then I get brash. I tear down. And even though I intend to do otherwise, I fail to encourage or build up.
A teacher of mine once told me that the ends justify the means. But more and more I feel like...what end is there, that you could achieve, that is desirable and beneficial for all, that could be justified by any means necessary? Maybe it isn't all about the end-point, but the process. Seeing that we're all works in progress, it's all about how we develop, how we pick up those soft skills, the intangible things that direct us, shape us into what we are, guide our thoughts and our actions. I suppose I'm thinking about all this because I wonder how I will dispense care as a doctor in future. In my haste to make sense of things, to intervene and to treat, where will I slow down to care for a patient? Or when I work with a colleague? When will I stop being so concerned with the things that do not have feelings?
1 Peter 5:5 says that God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. He knows that we require humility in order to admit that we are unable to deal with sin and its effects on our own, and that we need a Saviour. Only in humility are we able to fully embrace what God has offered to us - Salvation, His power, a relationship with Him.
Lord, let me not be proud, that I will not be a stumbling block to those around me, and to myself.
posted by Joel at 12:11 AM
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