The lesson taught

In my life, I have learned long ago that there are certain instances where doing the right thing will be the unpopular decision. That is, there are moments in life when your actions will garner much attention (regardless of critic or supporter).

It appears as if I'm at one of those junctures at this moment.

Therefore, I consider it all the more important to highlight something very important that I've learned in the past. I've mentioned before about the brilliance of A.W. Tozer in The Pursuit of God. Now would be a choice time to quote him.

"The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God has declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is in the sight of God of more importance than angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring. He rests perfectly content to allow God to place His own values."

That's why Jesus invites people to learn from Him (because his yoke is easy and his burden is light). Jesus has peace because He knows who He is and that identity never gets shaken (despite attack after attack from Pharisee and Sadducee). We only achieve the same peace when we cease to pretend. When we conclude our image maintenance and embrace unbridled transparency. It's at that moment that we discover who we are and begin to wonder how that beautifully collides with what God [instead] views us to be. There's peace found there.