I need to stop being prideful. I need to stop needing everything to be about me. I don't need people to give me a pat on the back or a high-five every time I do something right. Every time God does something through me. Because it's not about me, anyway. It's about Him. He is the One who is doing wonderful things in me and through me. How can I take credit for that?
At the same time, I want to create too. To be admired and to have my work praised. Maybe that is OK, as long as God gets the ultimate glory and credit. As someone once emphasized to me, God wants you to rightly esteem yourself. That's what the Bible says to do. It doesn't say to hate yourself and to make your name out to be mud. It says to rightly esteem [think of] thyself. To do everything to the glory of God. For His sake. For His glory. For HIS approval. Because His opinion is the only one that ultimately matters. His opinion of our works, and, most of all, His opinion and love for us.
p.s. Okay, I haven't found the "rightly esteem thyself" verse on Google OR Bible Gateway-does anyone know the reference?
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