“I say, through the grace given to me,
to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself
more highly than he ought to think.”
ROMANS 12:3
We do not need
Self-Esteem, we need Christ-Esteem. The more we see of Jesus the less we will trust in ourselves.
That
is why, once Paul learned his lesson, he wrote, “We have no confidence
in the flesh” (Philippians 3:3). He then goes on to list quite a number
of things that seem important in terms of religion, status, social
order, education, and good works – all the things that tend to make one
self-confident and
self-righteous. With one grand stroke, Paul says, “Yet, I count them all
as dung, that I may win Christ.” He simply discards what some people
spend a lifetime trying to achieve. Here is a man who knows the
sufficiency of God as well as the insufficiency of himself.
Source: “Embrace the Cross" by Chip Brogden
http://www.chipbrogden.com/books/embrace-the-cross
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