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The Pain of Being Right
So for most of my life, I haven’t been the smartest person in the room nor was I the star athlete. I think that this is a dynamic that most people experience to some degree. The troubling thing for my personal walk with Christ is that my response is largely sinful.
Over the years, God has been gracious to allow me to move past certain sin areas in my life. While that has been a huge blessing for me, it left me wondering what God wanted to work on next. Through accountability and sharing life with fellow Christians especially recently, God has really put a bullseye on the next area of my life to work on. As friends and family have helped me see, this trait has played a huge role in my life.
You see I like to be right. That is an understatement. I LOVE to be right. I don’t care nearly as much about prestige or money or power. Those things can all be set aside, but question a position that I hold and the love and care I should have for fellow believers and especially non-believers goes out the window. So in the end, this is a terribly ugly face of pride. So many times, I have clung to the fact that I was right, and sadly, even if I may have been factually right then I have not loved in my delivery.
So now the cat is out of the bag. At work, in the church, and with friends, I am asking God to break me of my addiction to the idol of “being right”. Anyone else experience this?
Not something I want to think about, but something I really need to work on in my own life!