WHAT'S HAPPENED TO HUMILITY? - Just A Minute Radio for Friday 06-26-09

Howdy on a Friday…

 

            Ain’t you glad every week’s not like this one. The Columbia State had a record breaking number of hits on their website. Seems the whole nation was focused on South Carolina – for a poor reason.

 

            No sense in going over the whole thing again. It has been *endlessly* chewed over and over and over by the news nets and the MSM… I read Glenn Beck’s transcript yesterday and he seems positively addled. Below you can read the text of the Bible verse I quote today on the radio commentary. It’s super-accurate in the ESV which I think is an excellent study Bible and uses the words rivalry, conceit and significant that make the old KJV words that are very familiar and because of that sort of ‘rounded off’ to where they are not so *abrasive* as I’m sure the Apostle Paul intended for them to be. He was trying to *warn* those first Christians he visited in Europe not to be SELFISH.  That’s what lies at the root of most of the problems we struggle with today.

 

            A husband does things he, himself characterizes as selfish and hurtful. Elected officials do amazingly stupid and risky things for reasons observers can’t fathom – they judge someone has at least for a time taken leave of ‘good sense.’ And I’m not just pointing fingers… I admit to having stumbled down those same paths and have caused hurts and bruises to others – not just myself. Truth be told – we all suffer from the curse since the Garden of Eden – and need to be quick to beg the Lord’s forgiveness.

 

            Probably one of the most quoted verses among really believing Christians who are trying to follow the Lord is !st John 1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Such a life-saver! How often we need to grab hold.  

 

Well… I’ll climb down now. I pray you have a blessed and productive and healing weekend. Most likely you, like the rest of us, need it.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

WHAT’S HAPPENED TO HUMILITY?

JUST A MINUTE – May I quote from the English Standard Version of the Bible – “Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.”  It’s from St. Paul’s letter to the church at Philippi – the first group of Christians he visited in Europe, and he was warning them against selfishness, strife – and an old English word in the King James Version – “vainglory.”

 It were well if that word could be emblazoned before the eyes of anyone seeking power over anyone else. It epitomizes what too often happens when people get power anywhere, Congress, City Council, Water District, -- Marriage!  vainglory is just another word for selfishness. “I have something you don’t have.” Vainglory breaks up marriages, destroys parent-child relationships, kills self-government. It’s why we have the economic mess we have and hinders the attempts we’re hoping will clear up government problems.

If you have a Bible ponder Philippians Chapter two verse three. You may save a marriage – or a nation.

          <> I’m Jack Buttram  

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