HUMILITY AND IGNORANCE

Traditional teaching is as big a hindrance as anything I know of in our spiritual lives. Some well-meaning but misguided Christians think they are humility personified because they keep telling God what miserable wretches they are. They proclaim they are nothing but weak worms of the dust and declare they are unworthy of His love and blessings.

Hold it right there, Buster! You are made in the image of God! How dare you say you are unworthy? That's a slap in God's face. Nothing made in God's image can be unworthy or a worm of the dust! Undeserving, yes; but unworthy, no! That's not humility, that's ignorance!

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" says Hosea 4:6. One version reads, "My people PERISH for lack of knowledge."

Don't think having a low opinion of yourself as being humble! That's being ignorant! That's showing a lack of knowledge. Frankly, it's false spiritual pride!

Hebrews 4:16 commands us to come BOLDLY to the throne of grace. There's no room for a spiritual inferiority complex there! As born again believers, we are righteous and need to take our stand boldly in His presence.

"I wouldn't dare claim to be righteous," someone is shivering in fear right now! Hey, a righteous person is simply an individual who is in right standing before God!

I like the definition of "righteousness" that Rev. E. W. Kenyon gives: "Righteousness is the ability to stand in God's presence without a sense of fear, sin, guilt, condemnation or inferiority."

I challenge you to lay aside any sense of false humility which, in reality, is nothing more than spiritual pride, anyway. Claim your rightful position in Christ as a child of God and come boldly into your Father's presence as His beloved child no matter what your need may be.

You can do it!

Preacher's Kid