Mutual humility

After I Peter 5:5-7 

We are to be humble 

toward each other.

It’s not about birth,

class, position, wealth, 

or anything else we

measure ourselves

and each other by.

In the age of me,

the age of self,

the age of ego,

it’s countercultural

to be humble

toward each other.

If the measuring

stick is Christ,

we have no choice

but to be humble

toward each other.

 

“The more we experience the gap between reality and what we know to be true, the more we grow closer to God. The more we see the gap between man and God, the more we reach for God.” – Pastor Clay Smith, August. 18, 2024.

 

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Some Friday Readings

 

The mower and the nun – poem by Cameron Brooks at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin). 

 

Something Is Wrong: The Nine Contradictions of our Technological Age – Andrew Noble at Something Is Noble. 

 

The Temptation of Christ in Illuminated Manuscripts – Amelia McKee at Art for the Liturgical Year.

 

For God So Loved This Anxious Generation – Sarah Eekhof Zylstra at The Gospel Coalition.

 

I am a steward

After Ephesians 3:1-13

I am a steward, 

a minister entrusted

with a gift, chosen

to bring the gift,

to bring the light,

to those previously

cut off, walled off.

I am a minister,

not through education

or training or merit

of my own, but only

through the gift

of grace given me.

The task set before me:

to preach those those

previously unreachable,

to bring the gift

into the light for all.

And if I suffer,

it is by grace.

And if I suffer,

do not lose heart.

And if I suffer,

rejoice in the gift

that is yours.

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