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05 – Pray with Humility
To speak with God, sincerity is essential—but so is humility.
We must come before Him without pride, presumption, or any sense of superiority. It’s foolish to try to impress others with our supposed spirituality, eloquence, or flowery words in prayer.
Jesus condemned that kind of attitude in Matthew 6:5, pointing out that those who pray to be admired by others “have already received their reward.” Instead, we are called to approach God with humility and pure motives.
The word humility comes from the Latin humus, meaning “earth.” From that same root we get the word human. Scripture reminds us that humanity was formed from the dust of the earth. That’s why we must come humbly before our heavenly Father: we are of the earth, while He is from heaven.
And Jesus Himself modeled humility. Though He is Lord of all, He knelt to wash the feet of His disciples—a task usually reserved for household servants (according John 13:1–5). Christ, the Lord of creation, became the servant of all.
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About this Plan
My dear friends, in the Sermon on the Mount—the longest recorded discourse of Jesus Christ in the Gospels—we find the prayer known as the “Our Father” or the “Lord’s Prayer.” Before teaching His disciples this prayer, Jesus first taught them how to pray. That is the focus of this series of reflections: what the right posture is when we approach God in prayer. Not the physical posture—whether kneeling, standing, sitting, or lying down—but the posture of the heart!
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