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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Without the black backdrop of our sinful nature and its consequences (God’s wrath), the gospel is a big yawn.
William Farley

Have you noticed that even people who feel lousy about themselves are judgmental toward others? When you feel inferior to others, you don’t respect them or treat them with mercy. Instead, you envy, hate, grumble, and criticize. Even self-belittling tendencies – “low self-esteem,” self-pity, self-hatred, timidity, fears of failure and rejection – fundamentally express pride failing, pride intimidated, and pride despairing. Such pride, even when much battered, still finds someone else to look down on.
David Powlison