For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
- Romans 12:3
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
- Philippians 2:3-4
For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
- Matthew 23:12
This is what the Lord says:
“Let not the wise boast of their wisdom
or the strong boast of their strength
or the rich boast of their riches,
but let the one who boasts boast about this:
that they have the understanding to know me,
that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness,
justice and righteousness on earth,
for in these I delight,”
declares the Lord.
- Jeremiah 9:23-24
“Learn first how to be alone, and you will doubtless also learn the true worship of God, which is to think highly of God and humbly of yourself. Not as if you ought to make yourself humbler than your neighbor, as if that would lend you dignity; for remember that you are before God. Not to make yourself more humble than your enemy, as if that would make you better; for remember that you are before God. But true worship is to think humbly of yourself.”
- Søren Kierkegaard, Provocations (from Thoughts that Radically Cure)
We often think too little of God. We carry heavy burdens when He has promised to lessen our burdens. We worry a lot. We fail to pray. We fail to bring up certain matters when we do pray.
God is omnipotent. He can do anything. He can fix what needs fixing – but Aunt Relia’s vase that you dropped last week… You may be on your own for that. But God can hold our hand while tempted. He can mend broken fences when we have wrecked relationships.
But why do we not go to God in prayer for some things? Why do we think God need not be burdened with this problem or that one?
We think too much of ourselves. We think this one is easy, so we do not need to go to Him for help. In my experience, the one in a thousand type thing is the thing that happens in those situations, and I have never been prepared for it. We feel the problem is ours in the making, so we have to fix it. But if we created the problem and we have not gone to God in the meantime, how can we “magically” fix the problem?
Go to God. Humble yourself and ask for help. God loves us, and He loves it when we do that.
Soli Deo Gloria. Only to God be the Glory.
Thoughts from Mark "Hat" Rackley 
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