I went for a walk yesterday.  After a stretch of glorious autumn weather, the forecast was calling for the remnants of another hurricane from the Gulf Coast to make its way up to my neck of the woods, but I was hoping to get my errand in before that happened.

As I was walking, the (heinous) humidity here was as high as I’ve ever felt it.  (The word “sauna” sprang squarely to mind.)  And I was reminded of what many of us learned in grade school:

Humidity is predictive.

And a truth I learned in Sunday  school also immediately hit me:

Humility is predictive.

• “For everyone [i.e., NO exceptions!] who exalts himself shall [not ‘might’] be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.” (Luke 14:11; virtually identical to Matthew 23:12)

But unlike the weather, this second truth entails 100% odds.  Bank on it.  Whichever path we choose, the Scripturally-stated subsequence is absolutely guaranteed to follow.  Definitely eventually, usually immediately.  While the unbreakable, never-veering verity averred in this verse serves as a warning, it is also a massive blessing:  the determinative difference lies only in which  path one walks along while in this world.

May we choose wisely.  May we walk wisely.  May we opt for humility in our daily lives.  Like that Porsche TV ad tagline of yesteryear puts it:  there is no substitute.  It’s a no-brainer.  Not necessarily easy  for our fallen flesh to fathom much less fulfill, but let us find firsthand that the Bible unleashes the Holy Spirit to produce and grow this guaranteed-golden trait within us, such that it eventually becomes automatic, one’s default setting in life.  And remains such as long as we don’t touch, as long as we keep our grubby hands off of the wheel and let the Bible and Holy Spirit drive us and do their thing, to perform the work as promised (1 Thessalonians 2:13).
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