🙏 Secure Enough To Be Small ✝️

We live in a day in which understatement is an endangered species. There is no shortage of embellishment and exaggeration. Every advertisement you see or hear will likely tell you their product or service is better than that of any other.  Think about political ads.  Each candidate will quickly tell you how much better they are than any other candidate.  Apparently, everything is bigger and better than the last.

When Christ is our security, we learn to be content with our lives being more dramatic in the living of them, than in our telling of them. Rather than making subtle, and sometimes shameless, efforts to have others think we’re more impressive than we really are, we’re happy to have them underestimate what otherwise might amaze.

Ultimately, it is the bigness and unsurpassed beauty of Christ, who is “the brightness of his glory” (Hebrews 1:3) that frees us from exaggeration and inspires us to understate self.  As we’re increasingly impressed with Him, we lose our need to be impressed with ourselves. 

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