The quote from Martin Luther today reminds me of a time when I worked for a youth mission organization. It was our practice as leaders to always wait to the end of the line to get our food at mealtime. When the end of the year came and all the leaders from various sites were together in one place, at mealtime a group of us remained seated until everyone else had gone through the line, jokingly debating which of us was the "most humble."
True humility, of course, is not something you can strive for. It must be seen as a gift that one did nothing to earn. The same can be said of true faith. If a person has it, how did they get it? Can it be traced back to something they did? No. It can only be a received as a gift.
O God, give me the gift of faith, that I might trust that you give me all I need.
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