What do you have that you did not receive?
Everything that I have or had is yours. You give and take away.
Pride, no matter how boastful, is still a sin. In this world, every little achievement brings us a feeling of greatness. In other words, this world is built up through the faculty of achievement. Without achievement, there would not be anything at all. No technological advances, no schooling, no scientific achievements, etc. But what I fail to realize is that, every single thing that I have gained, is because of God.
I get a good grade (praise the Lord). Who gave me that B+? God did. He gave me the strength to study in this dire cramming period and helped me pull through.
I get into Krannert (praise the Lord). How did I get in? By the grace of God.
The point of this passge to me is that it is so easy to leave God out in all of our achievements. Look back at a time when you are at a social gathering and you talk about school and classes. The topic of exams is brought up and lo and behold, you aced that sucker and want to talk about it. You proceed to mention about this achievement and how you overcame it to the other person. Did you bring up God in this conversation? Subtly we don't mention God at all and recieve all the brownie points for ourselves when all the credit goes out to God.
So I really want to challenge myself to remember God even for the smallest things in life. It is because of God that I have, and it is because of Him that I am.
Amen.
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