January 4, 2009 | Psalms 147:6

What the heck is wrong with us these days? Are we blind to what is really going on in the world? I see the stock market and the analysts plastering us with their doom and gloom pronouncements and I see a lot of frenzied rats scurrying for the closest hole hoping the traps set for them aren't going to be sprung and catch them in their snare.

But what if it did? Would they have to be humbled in a world where whomever has the largest yacht, is the biggest non-fool? So what if someone has a large yacht, or a car that goes from zero to sixty in under five seconds. Does that make them better people? Are they any better than you or me?

Psalms 147:6 | The Lord lifts up the humble and downtrodden; He casts the wicked down to the ground. AMP

God loves the humble. These are the people that do not feel like they have to shout out from the housetops that they are soooo good. I am not saying that being rich is bad, it's just that if you use it as a way of boasting and belittle others, then you are so far from being humble that you teeter on a cliff where the bottom below is farther than your eye can see.

How does one become humble? Praying helps a lot. Also taking your riches and using it to not just profit yourself but also to make the humble people feel more like the world really cares. And isn't that what life should really be about?

It reminds me of the seesaw that I used to play on as a kid. There is always the person who gets off at the most inopportune time and let's you fall and hit the ground hard. The people that did this to you were not being humble. In fact they're being vindictive and scared and fearful of their own lack of humbleness. They will often find themselves teetering on the precipice waiting for some other poor dumb schmuck to get off the teeter- totter at just the wrong time.

And does anybody really want that? Does anybody really want to sit in front of the TV letting it suck the life out of them to the point where they cry their eyes out in the bathroom because the local laundromat lost their last quarter, because the bottom fell out of the market leaving them penniless and alone?

I think not. I don't think God thinks that either. He gave us life. He gave us many opportunities to really screw up, not because that was his intention, which it definitely was not, but because as fragile human skeletons with skin, we decide to do really stupid stuff that we never really intended to do and in the process, humbled ourselves more than we will all truly realize.

I realize that I just put cynicism to a new level, but why don't we just realize that sticking it to some else is not the answer to our problems. The answer lies in faith in God and Jesus Christ and realizing that we can better ourselves and this can be done by hard work and trying to not let the boob tube rule our lives. When we come to that startling revelation in our own lives we will start to know the love that God can give us and the humbling experience it can be.

Isaiah 57:15 | For thus says the high and lofty One — He Who inhabits eternity, Whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, but with him also who is of a thoroughly penitent and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the thoroughly penitent [bruised with sorrow for sin]. AMP

So what do you say to a truce. Don't fight God by belittering others. Don't say "I am better than you." Because what are you really saying? You are stating that you are humble and don't want to admit it because it might make you appear foolish.

Make a fool of yourself more often. Humble yourself when praying to God. And make a friend with someone you don't look up to. Because if you lift someone else up you are in essence lifting yourself up by taking the time to love another. And that is what I believe with all my heart, what God REALLY wants!!!


Prayer: God, help me to not be a jerk. Help me to realize that no matter how much somebody may not deserve the wisdom I feel I can impart on them, to do it anyway, because I may just come away from the experience with more love to fill my heart with. Help me to be more humble, and I thank you for all the wonderful gifts you have given me. Amen.

Benediction: Now, Lord, Bless us in our daily lives. Help us to smell the roses whenever possible, to shine our light on those less fortunate than us, and lead us in the path we should go. For you are the light that keeps our path well lit. Help us to follow it, until we meet you, in a land where milk and honey abound, a place where our most wonderful dreams are fulfilled. Amen.

Hi, my name is Bryan, a messenger of hope who would love to hear from you. God Bless.

© 2009 Bryan Hill

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