Being Nobody

DEVOTION
PROVERBS
BEING NOBODY
Prov 12:9
9 Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant
than pretend to be somebody and have no food.
NIV
As I do not have either a servant or the lack of food I am not quite sure how I should personalize this. Perhaps it is speaking more to the issue of thinking more of me than I should. I would think putting on a façade, acting all high and mighty, as not having any sin in my life, and being so spiritual when in reality I am not, would be one aspect of this concept. I would think any attempts to make me out to be anything but what I am is a form of pretending to be somebody I am not. I do not think I do that. I am fairly confident that I am honest and forthright about the condition of my spiritual being. I know I still have sin in my life and speak of myself as a work in progress. I have not attained perfection and never profess to having done reached it. There are people I know who have professed such perfection, such a state as to be without sin and it troubles me when I hear them talk like that. I cannot imagine how I could ever be that perfect. Oh sure, I do not go around looking for ways to commit sin, but I simply fail sometimes at being perfect. Who doesn’t fail from time to time? Not that I should feel good about myself because everyone else fails too, but it is a fact of humanity and that is why God sent Jesus. Now there is a thought, I am a nobody. But Jesus came not to be served to but serve. He is my servant; he served as the price for my sin. Those people who go around pretending to be so good, in reality they do not have the food of the truth, the bread of life. I am so thankful Lord for you revealing this truth to me today. I am blessed because Jesus came to serve, and others are so in need, although they think they have knowledge, success and wealth and their goodness is sufficient, because they do not have the bread of life. I am so glad I am being a nobody.