Twenty-four Hour Saints

"We do not need the grace of God to stand crises, human nature and pride are sufficient, we can face the strain magnificently; but it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty- four hours in every day as a saint, to go through drudgery as a disciple, to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus." Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, Oct. 21

Talk about bursting my bubble. Here I am thinking that I seem to do okay when the big waves hit, but the little lapping waves trip me up. I thought that was a virtue. I have found, as I have walked with the Lord that many of my "virtues" are not so virtuous, actually they are just plain sin for the most part. Pride is such a pernicious sin. It creeps up everywhere, and over the most ridiculous things. I remember a sermon where Pastor Wilson described gunning down our besetting sins and not stopping until they stop moving. We were to stand over them with a smoking gun to make sure they were dead. It was a pretty funny image actually. This besetting sin of mine just keeps twitching.

I am very grateful for Godly men that are so adept at pointing them out for me. It is good to have people to point out your blind spots, so that maybe someday I can be a twenty-four hour saint, instead of a Scarlett O'Hara.