Measuring

"When they measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding." Beware of self-made standards of righteousness. Those standards are the paving stones on the path that leads to a total misunderstanding and total misrepresentation of the person of Christ--to the erecting of an false image that looks an awful lot like me. Can you think of a more spiritually devastating path for the child of God? "For if anyone think he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself."
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 The problem with the world today is not its wickedness. The problem is the baskets placed over the lights. How much love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control does the world see in my life? First, in how I treat my fellow members in the household of God? And then how I interact with the lost? "If we live in the Spirit, let us walk in the Spirit. Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another."
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 The person I most need to be delivered from is myself. "If any man will be my disciple, let him deny himself." Why are we so stubborn in trusting in our own wisdom and our own planning when they invariably end up creating such a mess? Lord deliver me from self-justification and self-reliance.