As we travel around this world, even in our own communities, we are going to come across people who say, “Look what I have done for myself.”
This is all well and good if these people have accomplished good and great things through dependence on God Almighty and without stepping on brothers and sisters.
I remember a nurse telling me some 25 years ago about a patient that had gone through surgery. This surgery was very delicate and tedious and the physician working through the operation did an outstanding job.
Having very little hope that the patient would live, most of the operating team was very surprised at the outcome of the surgery and the patient did live to see another day.
The nurse looked up and said, “Thank you Jesus for saving this man’s life.”
For this statement she was accosted by the doctor saying Jesus had nothing to do with the surgery and that he was the one that saved the man’s life.
This doctor was a good one however his pride got in his way. Even the best physicians in the world are not as great as the one and true physician, Jesus Christ.
This is an example of how many of us look at accomplishments that we have made during our lifetime. We put our self and our possessions first and foremost when it comes to taking credit for something that will be so insignificant when we die and leave this world behind.
All of us need to understand that no man, beast, or thing is above the Lord Jesus Christ. In whatever we try or do we should stand in awe of the Great Physician and give Him credit for all of our accomplishments.
Proverbs 8:13 tells us, “To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.”
In everything that we do we should acknowledge God for His greatness and His love for us.
