It does not matter if you are abeliever or not, God knows just how to push your buttons if he needs to doso. He is not going to mess with doing something that will not affect you. He wants to make a point and get to it as fast as possible. For me, theapproval of others is what drives my ambition to perform music forpeople. God knows this, and he will strike my pride with a harsh commentat the end of a performance or have someone write a letter to ourdirector pointing out specifically what went wrong. This also hurts mypride, but I know that my pride, in the long run does not really matter. Iknow that self gratification is not going to matter for long. I mean howmuch time to we actually spend thinking that we are the best atsomething, or that we have done a perfect job. Not much! And if we doit is only for a brief few minutes of our lives. I would much rather spend myfew minutes reflecting on how God has blessed me with the talent thathe has given me instead of dwelling on how well of a performance that Imanaged to pull off with God's help. The greatest thing about God is that he is all knowing but also thathe forgives endlessly. There is nothing I can do to repay my debt to God,and there is no way that I can forgive myself for my sin, but God can doall these things. And the best part is that he does so freely. It is soamazing that through scripture God reveals that not everyone is perfecteven if they are in the Bible. The only perfect person to ever walk theface of the earth is Jesus. God used King Darius' pride to form a stronger relationship with him. The king obviously did not see the God of Daniel as the greatest, until hesaw that one a servant spared by God's grace. Darius was looking forsome way to undo the wrong that he had created when he wrote thelaw, but he found out that the problem was in God's hands. After theincident was over, the king realized that there is no one better than Godto solve problems. He a...
