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In the "what was he thinking?" department, recently a pastor in Africa drowned while trying to play Jesus' in front of his congregation.

An evangelist who tried replicating Jesus' miracle of walking on water has reportedly drowned off the western coast of Africa. Pastor Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation he could repeat the biblical miracle, and he attempted it from a beach in Gabon's capital of Libreville. "He told churchgoers he'd had a revelation that if he had enough faith, he could walk on water like Jesus," an eyewitness told the Glasgow Daily Record. "He took his congregation to the beach saying he would walk across the Komo estuary, which takes 20 minutes by boat. He walked into the water, which soon passed over his head and he never came back."

We shake our head in wonder at these kinds of stories, but is it any different, really, than our own foolish attempts to bring glory to ourselves?

I wonder how often I do even good things, not out of pure motive, but because it serves me well and brings me glory.

Sometimes I am a nice guy, not necessarily because of the Spirit of Christ working in me, but because I want people to like me and see my glory.

Sometimes I am more concerned with how I am percieved than whether I reflect the image of Christ.

I am not good at saying, "not my will, but yours".

I often long for attention and affirmation more than I affirm His glory and His name.

If I'm honest, I usually seek my own comfort and my own needs more than I seek His glory.

I want you to like this post so that I can get the glory for it.

To cut to the chase- If I ever tell you I'm gonna walk on water- bring a rope and a life jacket.