With all this talk of “wisdom” and “excellence” as of late, it seems appropriate to give humility the spotlight.  The call to humility can be a necessary, recentering reminder along the road to wisdom that admonishes us against the temptation of pride (“knowledge puffeth up”).  We need that continual humbling along our journey, to be sure, just like a road trip warrior is reminded every 6 hours or so that, despite his best efforts to advance quickly, he must stop and acknowledge that ultimately his progress is totally dependent on and owed to gasoline.

More fundamentally, though, the call to humility is more than just a pit stop along our path; it is a call to return home.  And sometimes this requires a wholesale abandonment of our current route – not simply a slight correction, but a 180 degree turn.  “What a waste of gasoline!” the world will say.

Are we simply reminding our students to acknowledge God “along the way,” or are we showing them the path back Home?

“I will not boast in anything
No gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ
His death and resurrection.

Why should I gain from His reward?
I cannot give an answer.
But this I know with all my heart
His wounds have paid my ransom.”