Nathan W. Bingham

While you were sleeping, the Lord held together planet Earth and all the universe fine without you.

You're not that important.

And I start that with my day.

I want to be faithful.

I want to be godly.

I want to be effective as much as I can.

But frankly, I'm just not that important.

He is.

I often walk around cemeteries for this very reason.

I love walking through cemeteries, and you look at all of these gravestones, and some of these people, I mean, good night, they have monuments that reach towards the sky.

How important they must have been, and nobody knows them today.

I read history and you hear about these people that are so important in their day.

Everybody knew them.

They were a household name back in their day.

I mentioned them to you today and you go, who?

When did they live?

Being conceited just has no place for you and I. We are not that important.

God is.

So we contend without being conceited for the glory of God, for the good of the body.

Third, we contend without being callous.