I watch as all go through this world and in watching I see the powerful, the weak, the complicit, the emboldened, the timid. Each of them are carrying on through this world with their own approach and certainly with their own expectations of the final outcome.
“37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.” – Daniel 4:36-37 (ESV)
Nebuchadnezzar had virtually everything, a kingdom, riches, and power, and as you can see in the above verse there is the implication of pride. All at once, it was taken away, and he was driven to having nothing. That is nothing in the eyes of man and in the name of pride. He had his life and the necessities of life as God saw for him.
I have found that even as a follower of Christ, I have drifted from Him and allowed my ego to get in the way of moving forward for His glory. I think of myself and of how I am going to get or keep what I “deserve”. I am overcome with a sense of pride in my accomplishments and what I see as a “need” to be rewarded for those accomplishments. I fall into the pride that is contrary to the example Jesus gave me to live by. I drift away from God even if for just a short period until He provided the humbling experience to bring me back.
I do not consider myself a powerful or emboldened person, yet I still drift away, and God brings me back to him with some humbling experience. I may not be cast into the wilderness or lose everything in similarity to Nebuchadnezzar, but I am brought back through some humbling experience that drives to remove my pride and again restore me to taking on actions that are glorifying to God.
Each day, what actions are you performing that are contrary to those that glorify God? Are you focused on your own glory instead of the glory of God? What if you were to realize that even you, regardless of your person, should be thinking less of yourself and more of God?
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