It’s easy to get things backwards. There’s a natural way of thinking that happens effortlessly.
Valuing accomplishment, power and influence comes easy. It seems normal to respect those who are achievers with a record of great accomplishments, and who have wide influence.
It doesn’t seem normal to give that same respect to someone who lacks the achievement and influence, but who is, say, slow to anger with their inner thoughts and life under control. And they shouldn’t have the same respect – they should have more:
Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. – Proverbs 16.32
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