Today's Word
Philippians 2:3
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.”
Reflection
After the call to do nothing from selfish ambition or empty pride comes "consider others more important than yourselves." It explains humility not as self-contempt but as the direction of the gaze. Not lowering yourself, but seeing the other as higher.
Vain conceit is a thirst for others' approval; humility is the freedom released from that thirst. When you consider others higher, paradoxically you're no longer bound to approval.
On a day comparison and competition wear on the heart, ease the strain of proving yourself and see one person beside you as higher. Humility is not collapse but the lightness of being freed from the weight of approval.
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