"For the Lord
takes delight in His people; He crowns the humble with victory." (Psalm
149:4 NIV)
Quiet,
unpretentious deeds, done out of the way and in quietness, attack our pride,
our hunger for power and prestige, our desire for recognition and approval, our
determination to be important. They
train us in the practice of humility, which is the essential practice of
godliness.
Great
acts of virtue, it seems to me, come rarely, and rarely are they hard to
do. They have their own reward: the rush and recognition we get from tackling
difficult and demanding endeavors, the following we attract by doing them. It's much harder to give ourselves to hidden,
unheralded acts that no one sees. But
these are the greatest deeds of all, the elements of which are found in no
other religion or ethical system.
-- David Roper in Growing Slowly Wise
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