How well do you respect the people around you? I was so blessed to grow up in a home where respect was not only encouraged, it was basically mandated (in a good way!). My parents told us that we were to respect each other, our parents, and above all, God. And they demonstrated that in their own lives. I’ve rarely seen my parents even come close to disrespecting each other.
Now, young children are apt to have moments of disrespect – that’s just our sinful nature. A parent’s job is to help the child see that the attitude of disrespect is not one that Jesus wants us to have.
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I love to read! And more to the point, I love to read literature that can help me in my relationship with God. I’ve listed here a few books that have helped me throughout the fifteen-plus years that I’ve been walking with the Lord. The greatest difficulty in creating one of these lists is that theology differs so drastically, so if you don’t like one of the books/authors, don’t hate! Whether I agree 100% with the author or every statement made in one of these books, they have helped me walk closer to God (and you’d be amazed how reading something you don’t agree with can help define what it is you do believe!).
Since I was switching gears so much at the end of last week’s post, I decided to split it up into two parts. If you haven’t seen last week’s post, take a look here. This week, I want to transition from looking at the difference between arrogance and humility and look at the difference between confidence and arrogance.
I think a lot of Christians see them as the same thing. And boy, they can be. Arrogance can often come off as confidence in self, and most self-confidence is born from a heart of arrogance – BUT that is not always the case. Do you ever have an experience where you hear a preacher say something that hits you right between the eyes? It may not even be with conviction – often, it’s just that they put words to something that God has been teaching you already. This happened to me this past week.
I’ve thought a fair amount about arrogance vs. humility. To be honest, it’s one of those ‘makes you squirm’ teachings used by many pastors to make their parishioners feel conviction, but I wonder how much it really affects their lives. You see, arrogance is probably one of the hardest sins to spot and the most difficult to deal with if it is identified. I think this is mainly because true humility can’t come from our own effort or willpower. It’s something that we have to let God teach us, and that process is often painful. But, of course, another part of the problem also lies in an annoying little thing called false humility. False humility comes across like humility, but it’s a façade concealing an arrogant heart. |
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