Good Morning!! Self-assessments, we all do them from time to time. The question is when you perform a self-assessments, are you looking up, or down? The Pharisee considers himself a virtuous man,...but how did he arrive at his self-assessment? By looking down,...he chooses a lowly tax collector as his standard,...and of course the difference between the two men is considerable. It’s easy to look tall when you stand alongside someone short.
"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'—Luke 18:13 (NIV)
The tax collector views himself as a sinner,....and how does he arrive at his self-assessment?...by looking up. God’s searing righteousness is the standard by which he measures himself. No wonder he pleads for mercy.
Sometimes we're so busy congratulating ourselves for not being like other people, that it never occurs to us how much we’re not like Jesus, either.
Father, forgive us for thinking more of ourselves than we ought, and using anyone other than Your example as our standard. God, be merciful to us, poor sinners.
Amen.
"We never stand so tall, as when we kneal before God ."
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