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Ash Wednesday | Humility
Shared on: Mar 3, 2025
With Ash Wednesday, we are reminded of the humility of God expressed to us in and through Jesus Christ. As Karl Barth wrote in vol. IV of his Church Dogmatics, "What marks out God above all false gods is that they are not capable and ready for this [humility]. I their otherworldliness and supernaturalness and otherness, etc., the gods are a reflection of the human pride which will not unbend, which will not stoop to that which is beneath it. God is not proud. In His high majesty, He is humble." As His people, we are likewise to be and to live lives characterized by this kind of humility.
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