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“I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” Beloved, that verdict does not stop with him. It falls on you. Your own thanks, veiling your judgment of others, prayed before either man opened his mouth, He hears. Your own smirk, the one you think no one saw, He sees. Yet hear what going down means before anything else follows. And you He made alive, who

What if, in a way, the Pharisee’s prayer is a prayer of thanks from someone attempting to set a good example of what it means to follow...

Perceive the sharp contrast between the Pharisee and the Publican: outwardly, the Pharisee may look good and the Publican bad, yet...