Be Careful....

My word of the year is humility.  God has shown me much humility in these few months of 2011, or rather, God has shown  me the many areas were I lack humility.  Humility is a heart condition- the Bible warns of  it's wicked opposite, pride, many time over. 

I'm certainly a work in progress in the area of humility.  There are days that have been markers.  Markers of my lack of humility, God does rebuke.  There have have been a few down points in these first months of 2011- illness, the revealing of betrayal by a trusted friend and my human reactions in the handling of those moments.

The title of the post is "be careful."  Both the morning and evening sermons, were about this topic.  God knows all, sees all.  The morning sermon was from Psalm 51, with the background that David wrote the Psalm just after Nathan's visit.  David's moment of poor choices, involving Bathsheba had caught up with him.  While  David diligently tried to hide his sin from the people around him, he failed to hide it from God.  God knew David's thoughts, God knows our thoughts.  A point made at evening service was how Abraham doubted, even laughed at God's telling him that he and Sarah would have a child...  These chosen men, men after God's own heart, sinned, just like you and I do. 

Then comes Psalm 51:10; "Create in me a clean heart, O God, renew a right spirit within me". David's prayer. It's for us too!