Spiritually Superior

The other day I received an email video that I had seen before. I know you are thinking, "So, what's the problem with that?" Well, it isn't a problem, but I had seen it about a thousand times before! Seriously, I get this email video over and over from different people (and sometimes from the same people who have sent it to me before). It seems there are several emails that keep finding their way to my in-box. The funny part about the email of which I speak is that I have seen it over and over, yet people continue to send it to me with a note attached saying how they love this particular video or how they just watched this video and thought it was so wonderful they wanted me to see it. I want to scream : "I have seen it people, a thousand times over, I have seen it - This is NOTHING NEW!! Where have you been??? Anyone who hasn't yet seen this video has been hiding under a rock!!!".

Don't sit there and act so spiritually superior - you have had that same thought before too and you know it!!!

I was thinking about this and it occurred to me that we are the same way when people share things with us about Jesus. Have you ever been in Sunday School and heard someone state the obvious?? Something that is obvious to you, but has maybe just occurred to them (or maybe the Lord has just revealed it to them). Don't we tend to think that we are on a higher spiritual plain than those who seem to "know less" about the Bible or about God? Don't we sometimes want to say : "I know that! I have known that for years! This is nothing new - where have you been? Anyone who doesn't know this already must have been living under a rock!" OR, what about when someone misquotes the Bible, do you stand ready to defend your title as "Bible Scholar" by correcting their error??? OR what about when someone mentions a verse from the Bible that REALLY isn't IN the Bible??? (IE. "The Lord helps those who help themselves" - nope not in the Bible). It is at those times that we tend to want to 'set people straight' by blinding them with our vast knowledge of God and the scripture.

The other day as I was griping to myself about receiveing the same email over and over it occurred to me that sometimes we need to hear the obvious - AGAIN. Maybe we get just a little too high and mighty and need to be reminded of the basics of the Christian life. Maybe God sends those who are not as spiritually mature to help us see that our arrogance is ugly in the sight of a Holy God. Maybe I keep getting that video email because it IS worth watching AND because I never really got the POINT the first 500 times I watched it. Maybe it is time we realize that Christians come from all backgrounds and are at different points in their spiritual growth AND that is as it should be, as God intended for it to be. Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to think ourselves superior to those who are "less mature" in their spiritual walk. Maybe they are the ones who can teach those of us in the "dry bones crowd" a thing or two. Maybe.