The Logic of Humility

[401 words] Someone once said, “No one stands at the edge of the Grand Canyon and says, ‘I am awesome.’” Why not? Because when we are confronted by that which is immense and sublime, we are designed to feel at least two things: (1) our own smallness, and (2) the assurance that something huge and powerful is “out there.” Among many other things, this impresses upon me the foolishness of arrogance and the necessity of humility. There is a very real logical basis for being humble. Being humble is logical:  “The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate” (Proverbs 8:13). “Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished” (Proverbs 16:5). Arrogance is not only illogical, foolish, unbecoming, and worthy of divine punishment, it is un-Christlike….