C.J. Mahaney: Humility

In preparation for Men’s Monthly Prayer Time tomorrow morning I was gripped by the following paragraph from Mahaney’s book on humility.

Consider your life for just a moment. Where would you be today if He (Christ) hadn’t ransomed you, if He hadn’t liberated you? I’ll tell you where. You would be self-sufficient, seeking to cultivate self-confidence for the purpose of self-glorification.

Not the answer I was expecting, but exactly what I needed to hear. I was expecting something more along the lines of you would be in sin, lost, dead, wreched. C.J. Mahaney took it another direction to show us our true lostness. If Christ had not transformed me I would be pursuing what the world glorifies, self-sufficiency and self-confidence, and what often times seems good and produces great earthly sucess. However, I would have done it all for the purpose of self-glorification, and here lies my deadness, my lostness, my sin. What a wonderful Savior.