Wednesday, April 15, 2009

neither praise nor disgrace..

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.--Mother Teresa

 St. Paul said that Jesus humbled Himself, that He did got regard equality with God something to be grasped at. What did the devil tempt Eve with? He told her she would be like God if she ate the fruit. She would be equal with God. She grasped, she chose attachment to something other than trusting God. Jesus trusted His Father, and did not grasp. In His humanity, He learned obedience through what He suffered, the writer of Hebrews tells us. The devil tempted Him in the desert to be like God, He told Satan to get lost. He said no to grasping. What is the big deal about wanting to be equal to God? Because it is impossible for one thing, and any one who believes they can be equal to God have a misconstrued Idea of Who God is, and thus, who they are. We are sheep. He is the Shepherd. We did not make ourselves, He made us. We need Him, He does not need us. We deserve nothing, In Christ we have been given everything. I pray that one day I can get to this place of detachment that Mother Teresa writes about, "neither praise nor disgrace...". Christ have mercy!  He is Risen!
 
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