False Humility

John Eagan was a high school teacher in Milwaukee. After his death, they published his journals. Brennan Manning quotes the introduction from the journal in his book, Abba’s Child. I thought it was pretty amazing and worth sharing:

“We judge ourselves unworthy servants, and that judgment becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. We deem ourselves too inconsiderable to be used even by a God capable of miracles with no more than mud and spit. And thus our false humility shackles an otherwise omnipotent God.”

I love that line, “We deem ourselves too inconsiderable to be used even by a God capable of miracles with no more than mud and spit.”

The next time the enemy tells you that God could never use your life in his story, remind yourself what he accomplished with mud and spit.