The Truth about Us: The Very Good News about How Very Bad We Are

The hero of the story is the man who knows he’s not a good person. He doesn’t equivocate in the least. He offers zero excuses. He compares himself to no one. He doesn’t offer an “At least I don’t . . . ,” as in “At least

In fact, the impression I get from Jesus is that the battle against our own self-righteousness is our biggest battle of all.

Biblically, the word righteous means approved by God. It’s something God judges as good or right. To be self-righteous, then, simply means we’ve met that standard in our own eyes. As we’ll see, this is very, very important to us and, I believe, animates so much of what we actually do in life.