Saturday, February 5, 2011

Only God Can...

In one of my classes we've been discussing the omnipotence of God. Omnipotence is a fancy word for "all powerful" or "unlimited power." During lecture my prof gave us three specific examples of God demonstrating His omnipotence:

- Creation of Earth
- Resurrection of Jesus
- Humbles the proud

The first two were obvious to me. The third, however, caught me by surprise. But oh how true it is. Not at all to diminish the other two, but God's ability to make the proud man humble blows me away. Humbling the proud is nothing we can do on our own. We certainly try though. Oh how many times we try to put others in their place. Or worse, we elevate ourselves in an attempt to "humble" them. Seriously though, it's something only God can do. He humbles the proud His way, not ours; on His timing, not ours. It's nothing short of miraculous.

Such a sweet melody to the soul when the proud man is humbled to a place of complete dependence on God. It's beautiful to witness and even more amazing to experience. I should know. I've been that man many times.

GrantJ