It's difficult to be honest about our weaknesses. When we don't have the courage to humbly admit how we come up short, we instead project an image of a stronger, better self to others. This image is how we want to be perceived, even though it's not the truth about us. It's a false self, an inflated balloon of our fragile ego.

So what does it look like to pop that balloon?

Sources: 2 Corinthians 12:8-10 (ESV)

Mark 3:1-6 (ESV)

Genesis 3:8-11 (ESV)

David Brooks, "The Moral Bucket List," Opinion, The New York Times, April 11, 2015.

David G. Benner, The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2004).

Arthur Brooks, "Humility is the full acceptance of the truth about ourselves," Facebook, December 3, 2024.

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