Niagara Falls, Canada 2007: Arianna boards the “craft” previously “ridden” over Niagara Falls. In the world, the Winner’s Circle can usually only be reached through deathly daring and much trial and error. However, in Christ, the Winner’s Circle is assumed as the norm. So, which scenario best describes your life?
From Trent Ling:
Accustomed to vicious cycles, the Winner’s Circle seems forever elusive to the world. All have familiarity with downward spirals, but only very few can even fathom a momentary visit to the Winner’s Circle. Actual permanent residence in the Winner’s Circle remains out of the question.
Rat race examples abound. Among the most common:
“As soon as I can get the time and money to go to school, I will be able to get my act together and get ahead. But, right now, I have to work to pay my bills, and there is no time or money for school.” Of course, this scenario rarely if ever liberates anything, let alone the necessary time and money to get off the wrong track.
“When I get this next promotion, I will have a better schedule to be with my kids more. But, I’ve got to work really hard to get the promotion, which should come available in the next five to ten years.” Of course, promotions usually only bring a worse schedule, and kids do not remain kids forever, and all usually slips away producing little more than doubt and regret.
Life in Christ provides quite opposite outcomes.
“… but with humility comes wisdom.” Proverbs 11:2.
“… the humility that comes from wisdom.” James 3:13.
So, according to the Proverb, wisdom comes with humility. The truly humble person cannot help but be wise. And with more humility (which should be abounding and overflowing in the life of a disciple of Jesus) comes even more wisdom. And then, more and more, and more and more! The perpetual wisdom machine is born to the reliably bubbling brook of humility in the Kingdom of God.
According to James, ironically, humility also actually comes from wisdom. So the wiser we truly become, the more humble we automatically become. Not so in the world, but oh so in Christ. So, the more we know, the more humble we become. Truly, in Christ, we see that we have stepped out of our league with what God reveals to us, and such wise revelations from heaven do necessarily humble us.
So, the more humility the more wisdom? And, the more wisdom, the more humility? Really?
Yes, really. It’s the Winner’s Circle!
Sadly, for the prideful, no powerful perpetual pump avails itself to be primed. Instead, the vicious cycle runs and reigns. But, for the real disciple of Jesus, the Winner’s Circle presents as just one of a number of “new and living ways opened for us” through the body of Christ. Hebrews 10:20.
Pay attention. And choose your racetrack oval humbly and wisely.
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