A Prayer about Not Being Haughty

For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down. Psalm 18:27

Humble Savior,

We confess, our eyes are often haughty: 

We see others and think we are somehow 

more righteous, 

more beloved, 

more acceptable than they are. 

We see others’ mistakes and think they are monstrous, 

but we fail to see the glaring sin 

in our own hearts (Matthew 7:1-5). 

We are quick to condemn others, 

though you have shown us mercy.

Jesus, by your Spirit, 

we urge you—make us like you, 

who though you were 

“in the form of God, did not count equality with God 

a thing to be grasped…”

who “humbled yourself by becoming obedient to the point of death, 

even death on a cross” (the most humiliating form of death in that culture) (Phil. 2:6-8). 

Jesus, by your Spirit, 

draw our hearts to see 

the beauty of your humility 

and shape us into your lovely image. 

In your exalted name. Amen. 

Read Psalm 18:27; Philippians 2:1-11; Matthew 7:1-5.