You may have noticed one bragging about how their wonderful schemes got them through difficult situations, and thought them a jerk. Though, you might've been reminded of God's love when someone spoke, with a quiver in their voice, of how God helped them to make it through.

Maybe someone made a list of everything they've ever done for you, as if you owed them. But when someone said, "You can thank me by loving others in need," it became a pleasure to both give and receive.

How many times have we had urge to Lord it over someone fallen; to look at them in disgust, to shun their very presence, to talk behind their back, to refuse their service, to forget all good they've done, to spit in their face and kick them when their down?

Those who receive people in meekness have learned a very special lesson. In right place, at right time, under right circumstance - there is no sin we couldn't be tempted with. Only by grace of God that it isn't me.

Where did we get idea it couldn't happen to us? Don't we dare think ourselves any better (Ga. 6:3)!

If we weren't abandoned on a door step, raised in an orphanage or maybe even ghettos; if we were raised with God fearing, loving, non-abusive parents who saw to it that we had best education money could buy; if we've risen to places of prestige, prosperity, power, respect, and position ... how can we think we had something to do with it?