The Irony of Our Arrogance

The Irony of our Arrogance

Recently in sermons I heard and in a book I read, the point was made that the world considers Christianity arrogant for claiming to be “the way”. But that’s not really accurate because Christianity is not ‘the way’; Jesus Christ is the way.

But I find the idea ironic-

As Christians we are to humble ourselves and admit: I cannot do this through myself or by myself.

In our faith we serve a God that humbled Himself to be born flesh and blood as a little baby. He further humbled Himself to die on a cross.

Our beliefs state that we must humble ourselves and ‘die to self’; we are taught that we must love and serve others.

Our beliefs force us to realize we are not God. We are not worthy of God, yet He still loves us.

Our beliefs let us know that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the light, and that we are spiritually blind without Him.

As Christians we are instructed to “put away selfish ambition and vain conceit” and instead to “think more highly of one another than yourselves” (Phil 2:3)

That seems like a whole lot of humility to juxtapose the arrogance of Christ’s claim. But again we must return to my first point. Christians claim that Christ is the way. If we as Christians claim to be the way, we have become arrogant. If our church claims to be the way, we have become arrogant. Christ deserves to be arrogant and is worthy to make the claim based on the life he led and the death he rose again from. Christ is worthy because He is God. Let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.

Lord, help the rest of us be humble before You.