People like to fix people and when the successes of repair efforts are limited, patience and compassion run out. Restorative humility always remembers “but by the grace of God.” A broken fallen world is the dwelling place and reality for humanity. Physical and mental disabilities are a fact. The complexities and extended, mountainous challenges of generational poverty are unbelievably and deeply real. Does God have the power to heal it all? Sure He does. Will He heal it all for all people? It doesn’t seem so. Where does that leave the church and the rest of the responding world? Restorative humility stays the journey, whatever the perceived successes and failures. The humble motivation is ushered out of love that is patient, kind, is not arrogant, does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things – it does not fail, end or dry up. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8) Even a broken world becomes a better and different world when restorative humility is at the core of the church’s presence and global expression.
Copyright Chuck Coward, 2010
Copyright Chuck Coward, 2010
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