WHO WAS BROUGHT AND WHO DID THE BRINGING

The interviewer was questioning Dr. Ben Carson, the pediatric neuro-surgeon who is running for president. He asked about the God-syndrome that surgeons are reputed to have. He followed up by personalizing the question: "How did you keep from developing the syndrome." (I am paraphrasing the dialogue from memory.) Dr. Carson answered, "I guess it is because I never forgot where I came from." (Dr. Carson's father abandoned his family when Ben was very young, and he was raised in the hard-life of inner city Detroit.) Immediately, two OT scriptures and one from the NT rushed at me and joined into one thought in my mind: David said, "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings." (Psa 40:2). God spoke to David through Nathan the prophet, "...Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:" (2Sa 7:8). In the NT Peter said, "But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins." (2Pe 1:9). A person becomes smugly self-righteous, constantly critical of others; he has forgotten where he has come from. Another begins to feel he is invulnerable, has arrived, knows all that is to be known. He too has forgotten where he has come from. Still another rejects his roots as archaic, primitive and embraces the new, the cutting-edge doing so with a superior attitude of having done so because he knows better, thinks deeper, chooses more wisely. He has proved nothing but that he has forgotten where he came from. Humility, gratitude, caution, and a servant's heart all come by one's remembering from where God has brought him. Wherever one now finds himself, however successful, however sought after, he would remain humbly loyal to God if he would sing, "He brought me out of the miry clay..." and say also with the psalmist, "This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles." (Psa 34:6). This keeps clear who was brought and Who did the bringing.

WHO WAS BROUGHT AND WHO DID THE BRINGING

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