Humble yourselves
before the Lord, and
he will lift you up.
James 4:10
On the day I write this, my son Jay is starting his first day on his first aircraft carrier. Modern carriers are massive. They’re a small city. Thousands of sailors.
Most of what I know about aircraft carriers are from television and movies. On the show, a new sailor gets lost on the massive ship and asks a fellow sailor, “How do I get to to the flight deck from here?” The other sailor jokes, “You can’t get there from here!” It’s not funny to the lost sailor, so his guide says, “This path leads to a dead end. If you want to go up, you have to go down first (then over a few corridors, then you can go up).”
“This path leads to a dead end.” What is that path in your life? You know what that path is for you.
If you want freedom, if you want to get where you’re really supposed to go, today’s verse tells us the wisdom of the sailor: “You can’t get there on the route you’re going. You need to go down before you go up.”
Or in other words: “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”
In Christ’s Love,
a guy who wants
to get down
(and that doesn’t mean
I want to learn to dance)
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