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The grace of God humbles a man without degrading him and exalts a man without inflating him.

Humility is not saying that you suck and degrading yourself. You were made to be great, and if you believe that you are nothing, you have just defeated yourself. Imagine a general with soldiers that think they are absolutely weak. Think about what that would say about the general and what kind of army that would be. Now imagine an army of soldiers who are completely committed and ready to fight. Their focus is not on themselves at all. That is humility. When you try to be humble by saying that you are nothing, that you are just a speck in the dust, you are thinking about yourself and not God and automatically you are not being humble. You don’t matter anymore. It’s Christ that lives through you. That’s how you can be humbled without being degraded, and exalted without being inflated.

True humility is born out of an awareness of God’s greatness, grows in a heart full of gratitude, and matures in the awe of His passionate love for us. – Supernatural Ways of Royalty

Humility is knowing and giving credit to God for your greatness. Low self esteem is NOT humility. When you degrade yourself, that’s like telling God that he did a really terrible job by making you. How does that glorify him? It doesn’t.

We can be people of humility and still be confident in who we are.

(Written August 19, 2010)

writing a book is harder than it looks.

don’t worry. I shall release excerpts when I am closer to finishing!

In the next few months, I have plans to completely renovate Diplateevo and the way I do my blogging.

The main site (diplateevo.com) will become more of a personal design portfolio with a blog on the side which will focus on productivity tips, networking mentalities, tech hacks, etc.

My tumblr (tumblr.diplateevo.com) will become the place I post my spiritual revelations and Jesus stuff.

As for my old posts that are currently here, some of the more personal ones may go away forever. I’ll move some of the better articles I’ve written in the past over to my tumblr so people can see them there.

So in a few weeks, diplateevo may be down indefinitely until I get things organized.

I also want to update more often than I currently have been.

Anonymous asked: What kind of Christian would you say you are?

One that follows Christ. =P

Not to avoid the question or anything, but honestly I hate identifying myself with a certain faction/denomination of Christianity because Christ isn’t divided.

The “church” as defined in the new covenant, is not a physical location like a temple described in the old testament. The church is a community of people, not a location on a map. Saying “go to church” is like saying “go to Republican”, or “go to Asian”. Almost every single time the word “church” is used in the bible refers to the people group, not the building. Maybe that’s why it’s so easy to miss the point of “church”.

You can’t “go” to church. You are the church.