American Idol Attitude

How many of us have known someone who was arrogant or proud?  How did you feel about them?  Did they annoy you?  Did you feel bad for the person they were being arrogant towards?  Did you feel that their pride was making them look self-centered, vain and egotistical?  In the end did you think that the person was making more of a fool of themselves?  Do you feel that all the skills or knowledge that they bragged about was really just disgraced and made null and void by their attitudes?  Now think about yourself?  How do you behave with others?  Do you think you are better than them?  Do you think they are equal with you?  Do you think maybe you have some skills or knowledge that makes you more important than others? Do you ever let pride build up in you over an accomplishment?  Are you ever braggadocious? I have seen that attitude several times lately on American Idol. I am knew to watching it.  Seemed like a lot of great talent had been found this season and I wanted to see what happened.  However, I have seen some pretty proud people vying for the top spots. It really made them look bad. Took some points off in my mind for wanting them to win over the others.  Proverbs 11:2 says,

“When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.”

The writer of this proverb is telling us that pride will just make us look bad.  All our skills and knowledge are lowered with an arrogant attitude.  However, he balances it out with an answer to the problem  If we want to not be shamed by our behavior, than we need to be humble. Instead with our humility, we will gain wisdom.  So common sense should tell us to learn to be humble and we will gain wisdom and not be embarrassed.  In the process people will still see our skills and knowledge and perhaps seem them even clearer, because they won’t be standing there with their mouths opened looking at us thinking what a disgraceful attitude.

American Idol Attitude

How many of us have known someone who was arrogant or proud?  How did you feel about them?  Did they annoy you?  Did you f eel bad for the person they were being arrogant towards?  Did you feel that their pride was making them look self-centered, vain and egotistical?  In the end did you think that the person was making more of a fool of themselves?  Do you feel that all the skills or knowledge that they bragged about was really just disgraced and made null and void by their attitudes?  Now think about yourself?  How do you behave with others?  Do you think you are better than them?  Do you think they are equal with you?  Do you think maybe you have some skills or knowledge that makes you more important than others? Do you ever let pride build up in you over an accomplishment?  Are you ever braggadocious? I have seen that attitude several times lately on American Idol. I am knew to watching it.  Seemed like a lot of great talent had been found this season and I wanted to see what happened.  However, I have seen some pretty proud people vying for the top spots. It really made them look bad. Took some points off in my mind for wanting them to win over the others.  Proverbs 11:2 says,

“When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.”

The writer of this proverb is telling us that pride will just make us look bad.  All our skills and knowledge are lowered with an arrogant attitude.  However, he balances it out with an answer to the problem  If we want to not be shamed by our behavior, than we need to be humble.
Instead with our humility, we will gain wisdom.  So common sense should tell us to learn to be humble and we will gain wisdom and not be embarrassed.  In the process people will still see our skills and knowledge and perhaps seem them even clearer, because they won’t be
standing there with their mouths opened looking at us thinking what a disgraceful attitude.

It’s Like Apples and Oranges

You can get on the internet and type in to a search engine the word “compare” and it will bring up websites that will let you compare anything from computers to phones to grocery stores and on and on.  You can’t run out of websites that will help you compare items.  We always want the best product or the best buy and love shopping around.  When it comes to gods to choose from, there really is no comparison.  Some gods are dead. They were just humans that taught good ideas and then died.  Some gods were just carved images in stone and wood.  They could never even come up with a good idea.  Some gods are just things we find in nature.  They don’t even think on the same level as we do.  It is interesting to look back over the history of mankind and see all the “gods” that man has created to worship and hope in.  How futile these efforts are.  Our own basic intelligence should naturally lead us to realize that for a god to be our god, it must be more intelligent, more powerful, more loving, more wise, and live longer than us.  The God of the Bible is the only god that has ever met all those requirements and more.  He is the only one who is alive and loves us deeply.  He is the only one who has taught us wisdom and given us knowledge that is unsurpassable.  He even reminds us in Isaiah 40: 25-26 that nothing will ever compare to Him:

“25 “Who will you compare Me to, or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.  26 Look up and see:  who created these? He brings out the starry host by number; He calls all of them by name. Because of His great power and strength, not one of them is missing.”

When looking for a god to serve, worship and love, all we have to do is but look up and see that the God of the Bible is the one.  Comparing other gods with Him is like apples and oranges being compared.  There really is nothing in common but that they are fruits.  There is nothing really in common between God and other gods we could chose to worship, except that they are all just lumped in to man’s choices for their gods.  Just like apples and oranges are all lumped in to the category of fruits.  Wisdom should tell us after looking at the stars and other parts of God’s creation that they could have only come from one source, the one true God and that nothing compares to Him.  He is above all and all comes from Him.