Oswald Chambers offers this advice today:
“Be careful of the production of contempt in yourself, [it] causes you to go about as a walking rebuke to other people because they are more shallow than you are. Beware of posing as a profound person; God became a baby.”
Ouch! It occurs to me that phrases I utter and hear these days – “how could anyone” or “I just don’t understand how” or worse – are signs of the very contempt Chambers warns of. Indeed, it seems quite easy these days to “go about as a walking rebuke to other people.” We have turned it around and become quick to speak and slow to listen.
It occurs to me... 