"Like the proud Pharisee, we will gather our intellectual robes about us and pray: God, I thank you that I am not like other people- robbers, evil doers, adulterers- or even the tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get." (Luke 18:9-14)
There is a very fine line to draw between humility and false humility.
To be able to say that I choose to be weak, I choose to choose God, I choose to be meek, I choose to think for others, comes from the perspective that we are strong enough, good enough, to make that change by ourselves, with God or not.
Granted, some people need to mentally talk themselves into being it before they can believe that they are it. Totally valid and acceptable but there needs to be a circumcision of our hearts before the word of God can be made flesh in our lives without us being proud that we are more superior than others even though we may not say so nor appear to be so. I think this is what it means to be changed from the inside out.
My prayer for myself is humility, that along with the learning that takes place through the word, through Christian materials, through sermons, that my heart will also be circumcised in that process, so that I can live out message behind the word of God and be a blessing to others, that others may know the love of my Heavenly Father and the power of the almighty God.
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