The Key to Your Thinking

It was my mom's birthday yesterday, so my sister Christa and I took her out to lunch. It was a nice time to hang out, eat and enjoy each other's company without the regular distractions. Eventually, (don't worry, we talked about normal stuff, too) we started discussing the sin of thinking falsely about yourself, whether too highly or too low. Putting yourself above others, or always putting yourself down. Either way you look at it, it's thinking about yourself. And either way you look at it, it's pride.

Oddly enough, this morning the first (ok, second) verse I read was about how the wicked & proud man is always flattering and thinking highly of himself. It brought to mind one of my favorite "Kellerisms", as my dad calls them:
Humility is not thinking more of yourself and it's not thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself less.

Jesus lived this. And He encouraged us to do the same when He called us to lead and serve by becoming as the youngest in Luke 22:26. (I don't know about you, but at my house, the youngest is pretty much the slave of all). And to do that, you have to start thinking a lot less about yourself, your rights, your comforts, and your desires.

That's hard stuff right there. I'm not really envisioning a nice cakewalk. But praise God we do have the example and the empowerment through Him who utterly forgot Himself that we might find ourselves in Him.