We need to give credit where credit is due. You may be very blessed. And if you are, know this: it's not you that caused it. You are blessed because God blessed you.
That is the opinion you ought to have of yourself. Realize that your blessings didn't start and end with you. They started and ended with God. Somebody has been praying for you; and it is their prayers that brought you through.
The way God does things sometimes astonishes me. With God it doesn't matter how much you learned in school. It doesn't matter how good you can scheme and maneuver the business deal. It doesn't matter how eloquent your speech is. That is not what's putting you over.
What's putting you over is that God has blessed you in spite of yourself. Somebody who has gone on before you prayed for you to be blessed.
Some of us had mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers that prayed for God's mercy to be extended toward us. Some of us are still living off the prayers and blessings of great-grandparents that we've never met.
To think soberly is being aware that God has somebody praying for you right now in the midnight hour. They're praying and interceding for you so that mercy could come your way. So, when you fall down and hit your face on the pavement of life, God has somebody praying for you.
When you keep everything in proper perspective you can think soberly, understanding that God - and only God - gets the glory for all the good in your life. God is good all the time. Give glory to His holy name!
Scripture References: Romans 13:7; Matthew 22:21
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