12/18/2005

CHRISTMAS and HUMILITY by Peter Leithart
Our celebration of Christmas should be marked by humility, and perfect humility casts out envy, anger, strife, and resentment. The proud person never thinks he gets all that he deserves, and thinks that others always get more than they deserve. The proud person focuses on the injustice of inequality. But in humility we recognize that we have nothing that we have not received, and all that we receive is a gift of sheer grace. We celebrate the humility of God rightly only when we celebrate in humility, which translated means, when we celebrate with gratitude.

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