At the bottom of all of it, being a Christian boils down to saying, “I suck.”
You need to recognize and admit painful truths: You’re a jerk. You act selfishly. You desire evil. You recognize you’re not able to fix yourself. In short, you say, “I suck.” And you acknowledge that God has made provision for your suckiness in Jesus, his death, and his resurrection. That’s the crazy distillation of my faith.
I suck.
And so, I’ve been thinking lately how the greatest Christian virtue is humility. It’s the element necessary for all the other elements. It is the entrance, the initial, the primary, from which all other Christian virtues flow, including love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control, and the rest.
So why do so many visible Christian leaders seem so lacking in humility?
I'm excited for John Dickson's talk to day at the Global Leadership Summit.
1 comment:
No, it boils down to simultaneously holding the ideas that you are the chief of sinners and that you are the chosen of God at the same time. As a Christian, you don't suck, though your behavior might all too frequently. You are imputed the righteousness of Jesus, are blessedly adopted as His son, and chosen to be blameless and holy in His sight. You most assuredly don't suck.
Humility consists of truly loving others as yourself, while holding your worth in the same esteem that God has for you and recognizing that, in relation to Him, you truly are insignificant, though not worthless.
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