Saw something in myself I really, really didn’t like this week. Had a problem come up with my musicians during church, and I started to get upset. But then I got to wondering _why_ I felt upset, and it suddenly hit me that it was a pride issue. No, I didn’t appreciate the attitude shown from one of my team members, but that part really was a separate issue to deal with later—not during the worship service. The whole point was: I didn’t want to look stupid in front of the whole congregation, I wanted people to know the problem wasn’t my fault, I didn’t want to get blamed, and I wanted to appear in control of it all. EEEEK! I suddenly got a glimpse into who I am, and I didn’t like what I saw one bit.
The good news is: if I can see myself as I really am, then I can change myself with God’s help. I have no hope of changing if I don’t even see that I have a problem.
"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." James 1:22-24
"Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." James 3:13-18
The good news is: if I can see myself as I really am, then I can change myself with God’s help. I have no hope of changing if I don’t even see that I have a problem.
"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." James 1:22-24
"Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." James 3:13-18
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