We often judge people by their appearance, position in life, or by their possessions. We constantly come up with new perfection standards to judge ourselves and others. But the Bible is clear: God looks at the heart. As we grow in our awe of who He is, our view of ourselves changes. God is our Creator and He is the King who wants to reign in our hearts, so that we can have His perspective about ourselves. May our hearts grow in love for Him.
“But consider the Lord’s Prayer for a moment. This prayer is a prayer of worship and surrender. It recognizes, at the deepest level, the war that still goes on in my heart between the kingdom of self and the kingdom of God. It faces the fact that I can be so blind to the glory of God, and as I am, I become captured by the small glories of the created world. It does more surrendering and celebrating than it does asking. And the asking that it does is in the context not of self-glory wishing, but rather in the context of submission and worship.” - Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies
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