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men ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God.
Spiritual pride is the illusion that we are competent to run our own lives, achieve our own sense of self-worth and find a purpose big enough to give us meaning in life without God.
We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good-looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer, or cleverer, or better-looking than others.
pride is the pleasure of having more than the next person.
That is what our egos are doing all the time. Doing jobs we have no pleasure in, doing
the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
what we are all looking for, is an ultimate verdict that we are important and valuable.
You see, the verdict is in. And now I perform on the basis of the verdict. Because He loves me and He accepts me, I do not have to do things just to build up my résumé. I do not have to do things to make me look good. I can do things for the joy of doing them. I can help people to help people – not so I can feel better about myself, not so I can fill up the emptiness.
