God is God, He is not tame and domesticated like we sometimes (try to) make Him.

When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it’s painful, and it certainly doesn’t feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride.

We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small group meeting. We see opportunities to testify about Christ, but we avoid them. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.

God is God, He is not tame and domesticated like we sometimes (try to) make Him.

We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own heart, and, in essence, it elevates me so that I am just a mildly flawed imitation of God rather than someone completely dependent on Him.