Where is the line?

Do you ever think you have it all figured out? You know exactly what needs to happen. You take the matters into your own hands so that it will get done the right way.

Is there a line between confidence and arrogance? If so, what is it? When it is my plan, it is confidence... when it is someone else's plan, then it is arrogance?

Is there humility in your life? Do you allow that you might be wrong? When your expectations aren't met does it collide with your pride and sense of intelligence? Don't we do that with God? We tell him what the plan should be. This is how we should accomplish it. Oh, we don't say it that boldly most of the time. We hide it comfortably in the "right" words to make it sound spiritual. We convince ourselves that because He hasn't handled it in our time frame that we will just take care of it. Aren't we really just full of crap?

Do we see things the way Jesus does? He seems to take everything and turn it upside down. What we value may be the wrong things. We love the person who speaks their mind. The smart person. The one who is driven to succeed. We look at the principled and declare them to be trustworthy.

But the one who ignores the social norms, the one who asks the awkward question, the one who is invasive and a little too personal, the one who is bold in their worship... those types scare us and we shy away from them.

Those two people are describe in Mark 14. Guess which one Jesus praised? The woman with the questionable past who was outrageous in her worship. The other, the one we deem as a role model today, was Judas. One approached with complete humility and the other with his own plan. One was unrestrained in their worship of Jesus while the other couldn't understand God's plan because Jesus was suppose to come as a conquering hero, not serving the forgotten and awkward.

Are you worshipping or worried about your plan? Doesn't seem to me that we can hold on to both of these at the same time. Does humility describe your life? Don't mistake humility for weakness. It takes great strength to humbly chase after Jesus. Arrogance is easy.