Tuesday, September 28, 1999
Tuesday, September 28, 1999
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself
more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the
measure of faith that God has assigned.
Jesus warned us time and time again not to think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think.
Ron Newhouse
(Romans 12:3
NRSV)
Thomas Wheeler, Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
tells a good story on himself. He says that while he and his wife were out driving he noticed they
were low on gas. So he pulled off at the first exit and came to this dumpy little gas station with
one pump. There was only one man working the place, so he asked the man to fill it up while he
checked the oil. He added a quart of oil, closed the hood, and he saw his wife talking and smiling
at the gas station attendant. When they saw him looking at them, the station attendant walked
away and pretended as if nothing had happened. Wheeler paid the man and he and his wife
pulled out of that seedy little station. As they drove down the road, he asked his wife if she knew
the attendant. Well, she admitted she did know him. In fact, she had known him very well. For it
seems that they not only had gone to high school together, but they dated seriously for about a
year. Well, Wheeler couldn't help bragging a little and said, "Boy were you lucky I came along.
Because if you'd married him you'd be the wife of a gas station attendant instead of the wife of a
Chief Executive Officer." His wife replied, "My dear, if I had married him, he'd be the Chief
Executive Officer and you'd be the gas station attendant."
God of all, guard me from thinking that I am more important or less import than I am. Amen.
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