Just for pretense of bravery or
bravado people show off signs of strength to create an impression of power and
superiority. How many wars, acts of
violence, victims of bloody skirmishes have resulted from such a disposition of
human pride!
But that’s not the one that’s
really great in the sight of God.
Referring to the virtue of humility, Jesus spoke thus to His disciples:
“I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children, you
will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the
greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (Mt. 18:3-4). Isn’t that wonderful? Why?
Just observe the happiness of the little children. That’s what you want too, in addition to your
maturity, if you’re already grown up.
The only thing that could spoil our
happiness is what we may have acquired through the years, a sense of sensitive
pride, some ambition and greed. This is
what may be behind the gnawing unhappiness that might creep inside you. But maintaining that supreme trust in God
amid the trials in life can help reacquire that psyche of a little child who is
ever happy in the little things or happenings of life. Jesus wants you to be happy when he asks you
to be humble. “I tell you solemnly,
anyone who does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never
enter it” (Mk. 10:15). You better
decide. If you want to be happy, leave
those thoughts of greed and pride and become as that happy child whose destiny
is God’s eternal kingdom. The Son of
God, Jesus, humbled Himself till death on the cross. “But God raised him high and gave him the
name which is above all other names so that all beings in the heavens, on
earth, and in the underworld, shall bend the knee at the name of Jesus and that
every tongue should acclaim Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the
Father” (Ph.2:9-11).
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