YOU WILL RISE UP

 

The practice in this part of the world has been, people would generally get up when the Pastor walks in.  It is a mark of  showing respect to the one who has been anointed by God. 

There   was a  student for Theological  studies. It was well known  that he once had remarked to somebody,    " You will not rise up when I come in now. But you will do that after a few years." 

He is now a full fledged Pastor somewhere.

I presume his assumption must have become real now.

The last I heard was, he had taken to task the fifty fve plus Principal of a Church sponsored institution for not getting up to welcome him, when he had entered the Principal's office.

He must have forgotten he has to grind hard to earn respect and that  it should never be an oblation.

When I related the story  to a senior Pastor, he laughed and said he called the phenomenon 'Achenism'

He said as you are ordained and wear the cassock, it goes into your head. You suddenly feel you are much higher and better than the rest. He added it takes a minimum of three years for one to understand you are not an exalted human being.

It does happen to all of us. 

But it is for us to discern and understand we are not special. 

The earlier we do that, the better for us.