The High and Low of Ego
“Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when
he saw Mordecai…” Esther 5:9
We always carry around in
our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be
revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given
over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in
our mortal body. 2 Corinthians 4:10-11
Why are we called to this
thing the New Testament elsewhere calls the “crucified life”? God wants us to
die to everything and anything that hinders or relationship with Him.
God’s forte is life. He’ not
just willing to leave things dead. A paramount them in Esther is what God can
do when we resolve to obey and “if I perish I perish.” Anytime God calls us to
die, His purpose is to reveal larger life.
God designed the human
psyche. He knows that nothing leaves us more hollow than being full of
ourselves. We have no greater burden than our own egos and nothing more
breakable.
Human character is never
more flawed than when one person can reach his or her highest only when another
is swept in the depths. Only the smallest person needs others flat on their
backs to feel tall. Such is the driving force beneath all oppression.
Knowing where we are
positioned in Christ quells our deeply imbedded psychological need for self-exaltation.
Read 2 Peter 1:3-4 and meditate
on it long enough to be astonished. Don’t look up from the page until it’s revelation
is profound to you. The masterpiece of God’s Word can say so much to us in a
few words.
Cheryl
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