Me God?

When I was a high school principal, I worked with a student for three years that I never ever could reach. He was always in some type of trouble and after several counseling sessions and disciplinary hearings he finally decided to drop out. He didn’t have much of a home life and wouldn’t accept any help that we were providing as a school.

I remember on one occasion during that three-year period, Debbie met his grandmother in the grocery store one night and asked how he was doing. The grandmother said that her grandson made the following comment to her about our relationship as student and principal, “I really think me and Mr. Carriger have a religious problem. He thinks he’s God and I don’t think he is.” I have always remembered that comment.

I saw the following comment just recently by Anne Lamott: “The biggest difference between you and God is that God doesn’t think he’s you.”

Sometimes we think we know more than God.
Sometimes we think we have all the answers.
Sometimes our body language even displays that we feel we are better than others.
Sometimes we think we are God.

When these times occur, we are usually beaten down and humbled and reminded that God is in control. God is the one that gives and takes away.

I know I don’t want God’s job. Its tough enough being a husband, father, superintendent, elder and Christian. I have a hard enough time just taking care of those responsibilities.

I need to understand the feelings of others and walk in humility as Christ describes in Philippians 2. A struggle for a selfish person.

“Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”