If you don't meet your own expectations, you're a failure. If you don't meet the expectations you put on others, you're a hypocrite. Heavy stuff, right? Jesus puts it this way.
Matthew 23:3-8, 11-12 (New Living Translation)
3 So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach. 4 They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.
5 “Everything they do is for show. On their arms they wear extra wide prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and they wear robes with extra long tassels. 6 And they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the seats of honor in the synagogues. 7 They love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi.’
8 “Don’t let anyone call you ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one teacher, and all of you are equal as brothers and sisters...."
"11 The greatest among you must be a servant. 12 But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."
So, will you be exalted in humbleness, or will you be humbled through your hypocrisy?
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