Week 15 Day 5

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Don’t Bask in Your Glory

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.

Philippians 3:8

On thee alone my hope relies;

Beneath the cross I fall,

My Lord, my life, my sacrifice,

My Saviour, and my all.

Even when the Union won the war, Lincoln didn’t bask long in the glory of his victory. He tempered talks of defeating the enemy with conciliatory language. “In all our rejoicings, let us neither express nor cherish any hard feelings toward any citizen who, by his vote, has differed with us. Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of common country, and should do well together in the bonds of fraternal feeling,” he wrote. If Lincoln were to brag about anything, it would be that he found his long-lost friends in the South, not that he beat them. Do you “rub noses in the dirt,” or do you make up with other people after a disagreement? Bask in the glory too long, and you may not have any friends left.