Crash and Burn
Theme of the Week: Who's Number One?
Gary Thomas
Tuesday, March 2, 2004
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Key Bible Verse: And why worry about a speck in your friend's eye when you have a log in your own? (Matthew 7:3). Bonus reading:Matt. 7:1–6
So how'd your morning work go?" my wife, Lisa, asked me.
"I lost a good bit of it," I shrugged. "My computer crashed."
She looked at me with astonishment. "I can't believe you're taking it so well."
"I've written by hand and I've written on computers. Over the long run, computers have saved me a lot of time. I can't complain if they take a little time back now and then."
"But your attitude," Lisa said. "I think I'd be furious!"
As Lisa left the room, I thought, She's right. Instead of ranting and raving, I just accept it and move on. That's how Christ would respond.
Later that same day, I forgot to do something I was supposed to do. Lisa was upset. I began to judge her. I have this great attitude, I told myself, but Lisa's is awful. Why can't she roll with the punches like I do? Being the one with the mature attitude, I felt it was my duty to lecture her on how rotten hers had become.
That evening God zeroed in on my pride. Lisa's compliment had gone to my head. Relationally, few things are so obnoxious as self-righteousness. Spiritually, few things are so injurious, even lethal, as pride.
—Gary Thomas in The Glorious Pursuit
My Response: Are there men in my life willing to call me out when I get haughty?
Thought to Apply: Has God forgotten all I have done for Him?
—French King Louis XIV (after learning of his defeat at Malplaquet in 1709)
Adapted from The Glorious Pursuit (NavPress, 1998) by permission.
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Lord, help me to remember your ultimate example of humility. May this example allow me to put others' considerations ahead of my own.
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