Passivity is not humility. When we are faced with grave injustice, we are not to cooperate with it or capitulate to it. We are to be conformed to God’s will which may include confronting injustice.

We walk in entitlement. We believe we are due decadence, all our good actions should receive a reward, and all our transgressions should be overlooked. While pridefully demanding honor for ourselves we don’t see God as worth of honor. This has consequences for us and those around us.  

We all desire glory because we are all created to reflect glory. Yet when we search for glory in ourselves what we find will always be fleeting at best. Struck with reality, we can easily experience fear with our imperfect selves, when we are called to faith found in a perfect God.  

While we are of great value and worth, we are not meant to be kings and queens of our own kingdoms. In foolishness, we believe our greatest flourishing will come in rejection of God’s authority rather than in humble response to it.