NOT ME
Today's reading: Deuteronomy 7-9
"I will say it again. The Lord your God is not giving you this good land because you are righteous, for you are not--you are a stubborn people." Deuteronomy 9:6 NLT
Although I'm as Gentile a one could possibly be, I'm believing I may be part Jewish. No, no genealogical proof or family practices that lead me to believe that way, but there is a striking resemblance--stubbornness!
Nothing I have, despite what I lead myself to believe, is due to my godliness or greatness in God's eyes!
Nothing I've done, worth doing, has anything to do with God's favor resting upon me for my Christian deeds!
My stubborn streak overrides my knowledge of this fact on too many an occasion. My pride allows my head to think I just might be deserving of all God's blessings. My self-centeredness plants all kinds of weedy seeds of sin into my heart that sprout into tree-sized fantasies of my importance in the grand scheme of things.
And then I'm reminded, like in today's verse, that it's not about me.
It's all about Him and how very much He loves me, despite me being as much like myself as I am. God is so good!