We’ve all known people like this – loud, overly confident, always bragging about accomplishments they have made or how much they know – arrogance is all around us. To be blunt, I don’t really like being around arrogant people – they annoy me, especially the ones who are arrogant about their faith or their Christian walk. I have said this before, but if you ever encounter a person who suggests they have everything worked out and can explain all the mysteries of God – you need to run; get as far away from them as you can.
I don’t think God takes delight in arrogance. In fact, that is what got the Pharisees in trouble. The fact that they were so sure of what they believed is the very downfall that kept them from recognizing Jesus as the son of God. I don’t want to be a Pharisee! I want to remain open to what God is trying to do in and through me. So this requires humility.
Humility is hard for all of us – more so for some than others. Our society teaches us that it is ALL ABOUT ME! I have rights and you can’t tell me what to do. We are so programed to believe that the world revolves around us that it is sometimes hard to remember that God is in control – not us.
If we are truly going to follow God, we must do so out of a sense of humility – humility that understands God is in charge and others are just as important as us. We have to remember that we do not have the corner on the market for understanding God. We have to remain open to the fact that we can really only understand as much about God as God reveals to us.
Remember that God is God and we are not – don’t be a Pharisee.
Clay in the Hands 
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