Have you ever observed someone making a fool of himself? Even if you are a detached bystander, such a scene can be excruciatingly hard to watch. When I see a person embarrassing himself on television – such as a singer singing the national anthem off key or an actor forgetting a line in a live performance – I find myself flipping the channel, as if that will somehow help end the awkward situation. Clearly, we all have a keen sensitivity to “shame” and “humiliation”, making it truly painful to observe, let alone experience.

We commonly hear the word “humility” associated with our walk with Christ, but how often in the church do we talk of “humiliation”? It is really a foreign concept. But the more you read through the New Testament and discover what God actually did for us on the Cross, you begin to realize that our all-knowing and all-powerful God willingly humiliated and shamed Himself for us. One of the best examples in the Bible demonstrating this is found in Luke 15 in the parable of the Prodigal Son.

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I finally got a chance to overhaul my Digitalwalk.net web site and transform it into a blog format. At the same time, I decided to go with the new domain name (richwagnerwords.com) to better reflect the change in focus. Over the next several weeks, I will be reposting some of my original Digitalwalk articles, but which have recently been unavailable on the old site. Also, I will be posting a previously unpublished book on U2 lyrics. So stay tuned.

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