If someone preemptively emphasizes that he or she is "just a person" or "doesn't know much", then perhaps this is a subtle arrogance: why would one feel the need to do this when precisely nobody, in point of fact, has yet made those mistakes?
"I might be wrong", "don't put any blind trust in me", and so on. Well, yeah. Who said we were in the first place, buddy? Thank you so much for being so careful in your anxiety that people around you will fall into the trap of exalting you more than they should. Yeesh. Such ostentatious, overdone humility is strikingly similar to what the Lord spoke of when condemning loud, public displays of giving or fasting, wouldn't you say?
Friday, February 27, 2009
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