Sometimes you hear the charge that Christians are arrogant. We have been accused as people who think they alone hold absolute truth and that their God is the only one and that their way is the only way. What arrogance! Christians! Bah!
The fact could not be further from the truth. The very nature of the gospel makes it impossible for us to be arrogant. This is because we understand that we are truly wretched people with nothing in us that makes us worthy to be saved from eternal damnation. We recognise that we have no merit that we can hold up to claim we deserve God's love. Rather, we deserve his righteous judgment.
But God decided on his own, to save us. We are stunned that God has shown us mercy. Such amazement causes us to look away from ourselves and to the one who has shown as such grace. Those who understand this, cannot be arrogant. Instead, we are deeply humbled. And we are excited to take what we've received and tell others about it, so that they too will be saved just as we have been.
The Bible says in Ephesians 2:8,9—"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."
And again in Titus 3:5,6—"...he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour..."
There is no arrogance in the gospel. Only a humble, face-to-the-ground gratefulness toward our Saviour.
