“Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on. And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over Israel?”
(1 Sam. 15:16-17)
In today’s vernacular we would say of Saul, “He got too big for his own britches.” Whenever we suppose our manufactured and substituted way is superior to God’s planned way we have outgrown our usefulness. A dear departed preacher friend, Dr. Tom Malone, used to say, “Big shots are made out of little squirts.” Like Saul, whenever we do such a hideous deed, we always whitewash it with the veneer of spirituality. Jacob also was expert at tagging God's name to his own plans.
You can always know when we are becoming spiritually inflated; whenever it is important for us to be important, it is a sure sign! Or as Paul put it, “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith,” Rom. 12:3. Personally, I don’t think the hat of humility will fit on any “big head.”
“Sometimes a man has to be big enough to see how small he is.”
(from the movie: 3:10 to Yuma)
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