I am asked, "when you look at our situation what do you see is
wrong? You know what is wrong in our
situation, don’t you"? I do sense there
is something wrong, but what is it? I can’t put my finger on it, there are many
things, little things that are not right, but really could they make that much
difference. So I watch, I listen, from
the shadows. What could it be, why is it
that there is a sense that something is so wrong? Then as I listen from the shadows, I see it, hear it, loud and clear. There it is,
shameless self-promotion, that is what it was, all along. Of course! after all the holy text says if my
people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and
seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and
I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. It makes sense self-promotion is the opposite
of humility. It is wicked, and not the
way I hear some say that word today. When
they say it is “wicked” today it means good, but rather it is wicked meaning “evil”. Shameless self-promotion may be what one
thinks will take them to the top but the wisdom literature has some advice for those
that self-promote to get ahead - Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
someone else, and not your own lips.
