Friday, August 14, 2015

Overcoming pride

Psalms 131:1-3 

1 My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me.

2 But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

3 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD both now and forevermore.

Mark 9:33-37 

33 They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the road?” 

34 But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest.

35 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all.”

36 He took a little child and had him stand among them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, 

37 “Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”

Luke 14:7-11 

7 When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable: 

8 “When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. 

9 If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. 

10 But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow guests. 

11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”


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