How do you know if your response to an issue is with humility or pride? Celebrating accomplishments and milestones can be done with a self congratulations that smells like pride. Shouting opinions and marketing ideas can also be filled with the a proud view that we are right and other views are wrong. Promoting ourselves and our illusion of building a kingdom do not meet God’s approval. He is jealous for our attention as our Creator and Sustainer.
“Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant it becomes. To think we have it is sure evidence that we don't.” - Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline
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