“I also am formed out of the clay.”~ Job 33:6
I'm sure Bible saints would be embarrassed and appalled at the exalted position on which many place them today. In some cases, it borders on deification. When the people of Paul's day attempted to place him and Barnabas on such a pedestal, they told them, "Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you." And when Cornelius fell at Peter's feet we're told, "But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am man."
Is this not what James tells us of the man Elijah who prayed so earnestly and effectually? " Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are," says he.
God makes no attempt to use cosmetics on His children's lives. His biography of each shows, if you please, warts and all. And this is the way every truly good and godly saint would have it. As Paul said, "lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me." The apostle gloried in the fact God made manifest to others his weakness and frailties; lest said he, "I should be exalted above measure." The Bible presents to us these marred portraits not in order to tear them down, but to build us up. And not one would have a problem with God helping us at their expense.
Whenever a man or woman ceases trying to patch their old broken vessel and allow others to see them as they are, in fact, marred and broken, it is then the treasure within will be seen. When this world sees that sainthood bleeds like they do; have the problems they do; lives on the same street they do; works and go to school where they do; falls on their faces, at times, like they do; along with a long list of other short-comings as a result of being part of humanity, it is then, and only then, they will come to us, like the Greeks of old and request, "Sirs, we would see Jesus."
It's not the lofty but the lowly that represent the Humble One of Galilee!
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