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Philippians 2 vs 3
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.”
I know someone who used to be extremely successful, but within the course of life, things went horribly wrong. He was a conscious polished individual who always used to dress meticulously. He was important and extremely difficult to pin down.
He had scaled the dizzy heights of success and along the way picked up all the trappings, which included a slight tinge of arrogance and a total disregard for others. Selfishness was the order of the day.
To sum it up, he was a pretty unpleasant person with a corresponding personality to match. The other day I bumped into him, years after he had left the business scene in disgrace, a broken man. The person I met was very different, slightly dishevelled, casually dressed and extremely polite. A shadow of his former self, he was more pleasant, more human, affable and at peace. All the airs and graces were gone, he was now just a plain, simple nice guy. He had changed as a person, although his weight had remained the same and he was alive and well.
It got me thinking that often times as we rise in whatever sphere we are in, it has become the norm that we hurt, injure, and step on other people in a bid to get to our desired position. When we arrive at our intended destination we have a litany of broken relationships and a bevy of people praying to the Lord for justice for the pain that we caused them. We have somehow placed success at the pinnacle of everything while forgetting that success only forms an ambit of who we are.
For many, the trappings of their status or position defines who they are. It’s the reason that they wake up, walk tall and live. It should not be like that, we should never change our personality just because we now hold a certain position. We do not need ill fortune, calamity or difficulty to bring us to the reality that we are supposed to be nice people. The Lord specifically calls upon us to be humble, to consider others better than ourselves and to be considerate, loving and patient.
The old adage is always shared, that you must remember to be nice to everyone as you are climbing the ladder, so that if you fall the people who pulled you up will assist you, instead of fuelling your downfall. Humility is one of the most difficult aspects of life to grasp.
Be Blessed!
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