People show they operate in reality, show they acknowledge truth, when they admit that human beings are fallible. That is to admit no human being is God.
But people show they are committed to truth by the humility of admitting they themselves are fallible, and may be wrong. That is to admit truth is greater than our Self.
Humility has a personal price. We learn humility by being humiliated. The greatest humiliation any of us can ever suffer is to admit that we are wrong.
The way of the world's "great ones," more in evidence today than ever before, is to assert that truth proves they are "right." But truth flatters no man: truth is that all men are fallible. Those who say truth glorifies themselves are lying, and the truth is not in them. (I John 2:4)
But people show they are committed to truth by the humility of admitting they themselves are fallible, and may be wrong. That is to admit truth is greater than our Self.
Humility has a personal price. We learn humility by being humiliated. The greatest humiliation any of us can ever suffer is to admit that we are wrong.
The way of the world's "great ones," more in evidence today than ever before, is to assert that truth proves they are "right." But truth flatters no man: truth is that all men are fallible. Those who say truth glorifies themselves are lying, and the truth is not in them. (I John 2:4)
