Day 219
Certifications, completion of goals, awards, degrees, titles, resumes, curriculum vitae - visible and tangible achievements, provide you with points. Your points provide you access to more opportunities. More opportunities help to place you in a better status. Your status provides you with an invisible banner that speaks to all around you, "I am significant." But Christianity rubs against this.
Christ achieved all. All the hoops that needed to be jumped through, all the awards that needed to be awarded, all the documentation that needed documenting, all that was needed to be provided for completion, He completed. But we want to do something to earn awards and achievements. We want something to refer to us. This frustrates our pride.
If you are the highest paid educator, the most awesome lawyer, the cleverest mechanic, the world's smartest medical doctor, the most advanced human being, it does not raise you above anyone. At the cross you are completely equal with all of humanity, no one rises above anyone. This pricks our pride.
Christianity is the Pride Slayer.
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