Being Yourself and Humble Yourself

January 29, 2009

Today's Reading Exodus 7 8 and Matthew 18

It is always so interesting that in order to be more godly, you have to be more humble. Personally, if I wanted to be more godly, I would want to be more mighty. This is further proof that the Bible was, in fact, inspired by God.

Still, God seems to be interested in our humility. In fact, he is so interested in it, he will even use people that are way too humble.

Take Moses, for example. God told Moses that he would make him like God to Pharaoh, and he even gave him his own prophet with Aaron. So then Moses and his prophet Aaron go up to the Pharaoh and Aaron does all the talking.

Man, I know I mentioned the Prince of Egypt before, but it’s hard not to when you’re reading Exodus. You remember who they got to play Aaron in that one, Jeff Goldblum for crying out loud. Man, I can’t think of a guy who wouldn’t be a mouthpiece for God than him. You know how he like stammers through every role, like he did in Jurassic Park.

The crazy thing is Moses was the one who was shy. Still, I suppose he was following Jesus advice and changing to become like a little child. After all, I’m sure a lot of little children would be afraid of talking to the Pharaoh. I mean, my five year old daughter is afraid to talk to the cashier at McDonald’s, for crying out loud.

So why is it that God wants us to be more like a child? After all, there is nothing that I can’t stand more than I discover that I did something immature. That seems to happen a lot. Take this blog, for example. Hopefully I am just kidding about that.

So, how do you become more godly, just be humbled. I suppose the best way to be humbled is to do something really stupid. Don’t worry, if you don’t do something stupid now, you will eventually.

In fact, you should start now by being nervous. I’m certain you are nervous about something already. This is why being a Christian is so great, because you can totally be yourself and be godly at the same time. I really had some weird rationale there.

Yeah, I suppose the best way to serve God is to humble yourself, but if you’re human, it’s too late for that.