The only thing that exceeds right-doing is right-being.
~Oswald Chambers
This truth must be one of the harder concepts to swallow as a human being. Our sense of worth is so closely tied to the opinions of others that we naturally strain towards a life of right-doing. Is it possible to measure right-being in a human? If character is who we are when no one is looking, then our inner-most motivations, our truest indicator of our willingness to sacrifice is invisible to the world at its root level. The idea that I must continually strive, continually die to myself, continually put myself aside only to have a changed inner heart- and not the respect, praise and adoration of the world is a difficult idea-half the time...
There are moments when this inner purity and peace are the only things that seem worth chasing, and I must learn to recognize what allows these moments to happen. When I have truly let Christ into my being, his tendencies will seem the most natural thing in the world-if I haven't conciously given up myself, I will fit in much better to society and continue to wonder what character really looks like.
1 comment:
i like that :)
It is a hard concept to grasp.
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