tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post4741604895877610030..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Moses was humbleRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-63959293650201747142017-07-29T14:59:20.257-04:002017-07-29T14:59:20.257-04:00Good points. One other possibility: We know that J...Good points. One other possibility: We know that Joshua had a hand in writing and editing the Pentateuch, certainly under the auspices of Moses' leadership. This phrase may have been a personal observation of Moses' character by Joshua.Jim Pembertonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01446388434272680014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-15157596961381574132017-07-28T15:49:14.247-04:002017-07-28T15:49:14.247-04:00I totally agree. There's nothing inherently pr...I totally agree. There's nothing <i>inherently</i> prideful in admitting the truth that one is humble. It <i>can</i> be said pridefully, but it <i>can <b>also</b></i> be said truthfully and humbly. Humility is having a right and accurate self-perception. Paul said we aren't to think of ourselves MORE highly than we ought (Rom. 12:3). He didn't say don't think of yourself highly. I think there is a sense in which we should think of ourselves highly. Just not MORE highly than the position we actually are relative to God and other believers, and non-believers in the various sphere we live in. For example, there is a sense in which a destitute Christian is higher than a unbelieving king (spiritually speaking). Yet, in another sense the king is higher than that same Christian governmentally. Just as there's a sense in which a layman and a minister are equals, and another sense in which they are not equals.<br /><br />I'm reminded of Edward's Griffin's sermon <a href="http://www.puritansermons.com/sermons/griffin2.htm" rel="nofollow">Heaven</a><br /><br /><i>...Child of God, bow before thine own majesty.- Debase not thyself by sordid actions. Forget not the glories of thy nature, nor sell thine infinite birthright for such a contemptible mess of pottage as earth can yield. Child of God, cheer up under the trials of life. Let nothing cast you down who are standing on the verge of immortal glory. It is the only opportunity you will ever have to suffer for Christ. Eternity will be long enough for enjoyment. Your toils and selfdenials will all be recompensed a thousand fold by that "far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." </i><br /><br />Or his sermon <a href="http://www.puritansermons.com/sermons/griffin1.htm" rel="nofollow">When I was a Child I Thought as a Child</a><br /><br /><i>Often contemplate the amazing destinies before you. Why those sighs and tears and low contracted griefs? Is it for the children of a king to be sad? You have reason to rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. I wonder you are not constantly transported. Consider what you will be a century hence. Consider what you will be a million ages hence. I am rapt as I follow you through the ascending glories of eternity. And are you born to this? to dignity so august? to glories so unbounded? O debase not yourselves by sordid actions. Stoop not to grovelling pursuits. Remember what you are and respect yourselves. Do nothing that you will disapprove when you review your life from the high abodes of salvation.</i><br /><br />Or C.S. Lewis' sermon <a href="http://www.verber.com/mark/xian/weight-of-glory.pdf" rel="nofollow">The Weight of Glory</a><br /><br /><i>It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbour. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbour’s glory should be laid daily on<br />my back, a load so heavy that only humility can carry it, and the backs of the proud will be broken. It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people.</i>ANNOYED PINOYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714774340084597206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-65099934464454212422017-07-26T21:50:14.831-04:002017-07-26T21:50:14.831-04:00~ I find something of this sort also bandied about...~ I find something of this sort also bandied about in the Church. People will say something like "the moment you have admitted to being humble, you've lost your humility."<br /><br />I don't see why. I mean suppose someone were to walk up to Jesus and ask Him "Are you humble?" How would Jesus respond?<br /><br />If Jesus replied with a "No" then He would be a liar. If He replied with a "Yes" then presumably according to above reasoning, Jesus is actually not humble, but prideful. <br /><br />In Him,<br />~ RajAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com