You're Only Human

★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 (rounded up)
This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
—
WHAT'S YOU'RE ONLY HUMAN ABOUT?

Creaturely finitude is less an idea we discover than a reality we run into.

Many of us fail to understand that our limitations are a gift from God, and therefore good. This produces in us the burden of trying to be something we are not and cannot be.

Humility consists in a recognition of (and a rejoicing in) the good limitations that God has given us; it is not a regrettable necessity, nor simply a later addition responding to sinful disorders. Even if there had never been a fall into sin, humility would still have the essential character of gratitude for our dependence on God and for his faithful supply of our need. Humility is built on the Creator/creature distinction; its response to sin emphasizes our further need for God to restore us to the fellowship that he always intended us to inhabit.

YOU'RE ONLY HUMAN

You're Only Human