in working with college students, there are many questions relating to how certain situations played out in my life...what i did when this happened or that happen...
when i feel like i handled a situation they are asking about well, and in a way that God would desire for me to handle it, it is pretty easy to give them the input on how i handled it.
however, i have been thinking lately about how it seems so much harder to give the input about it when i didn't handle a situation so well, or in the way that i think that God would have wanted me to handle it. and looking back, i know that my advice would not to do what i did.
but it is much harder, at least for me, to mentor in that way. part of it is probably my perfectionism. but i think that part of it, for me, is the fact that i feel somewhat hypocritical and unqualified to be giving the advice. and yet, i know that one of the very best ways to learn is through failure. and so maybe it is more about the perfectionism and just wanting to "get it right"...i don't know. just something kind of interesting that i have been thinking about lately.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
A Crazy Thing Called Pride...
pride is a crazy thing. it seems that often times, when things aren't going terribly well, when we are not terribly successful, pride doesn't seem to be nearly as tempting.
but as things go well, as we grow in our abilities...i would say, particularly, in our abilities that God has wired us for...the temptation towards pride seems to grow...
recently i have struggled alot with pride. i wouldn't necessarily say with pride itself, but with the temptation towards pride.
i have been feeling like God has been teaching me and growing me in some awesome ways. and that is exactly it...if it weren't for God being actively at work, i simply wouldn't have the abilities that i do. and yet, it can be incredibly tempting to become prideful about those very same abilities.
and i just wish that there was an easy solution to turn away pride...but there just isn't. at least not the way that i see it. it is something that we must actively and intentionally flee from daily. and as things go well, the need to intentionally flee only grows.
but as things go well, as we grow in our abilities...i would say, particularly, in our abilities that God has wired us for...the temptation towards pride seems to grow...
recently i have struggled alot with pride. i wouldn't necessarily say with pride itself, but with the temptation towards pride.
i have been feeling like God has been teaching me and growing me in some awesome ways. and that is exactly it...if it weren't for God being actively at work, i simply wouldn't have the abilities that i do. and yet, it can be incredibly tempting to become prideful about those very same abilities.
and i just wish that there was an easy solution to turn away pride...but there just isn't. at least not the way that i see it. it is something that we must actively and intentionally flee from daily. and as things go well, the need to intentionally flee only grows.
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