A few thoughts for today

1. I was thinking again on those verses in Daniel 10. How people run away out of fear. I was hit with the fact again that there is an intense fear in our flesh of humility. We hate to admit weakness and wrong in our lives and in our actions. Even for children it is difficult to just say sorry. It can seem painful to humble ourselves. It seems scary, like you are about to jump and can not clearly see the landing place. Where will you land? Will you fall? The fear is simply because the unknown- venerability. When we humble ourselves we let go of control!!!! We feel venerable. We admit that the control and authority we "thought" we had is flawed or in truth, inexistent!!

Society wants us to believe the opposite. It tells us that humility is a weakness that needs to be avoided. It leads us to the illusion that life and the riches of this world are deserved; that when someone corrects our wrong behavior or answers on a test they are bulling us. It is not our fault if we mess up, there is always someone else to blame. It is all about #1!!! our own happiness is all that matters.

Judges 17:6 In thosedays there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

The world has not standard for living. No guidelines. As a result- ANYTHING GOES! It is all about what each individual thinks is best, what makes THEM feel good. Humility has no place in such a world.

People are fearing the wrong thing. How swayed the masses are when humility is worse than Hell.

2. I was vacuuming the other day and started thinking about that saying, "pick your battles". I know this thought is probably old hat to most, but I am reminded of it often. It is simply, that I do not want to be the one picking battles!! I want to pray about things until God picks the battles. I fail at this a lot, but that is just another thing to pray about.