I was thinking today that when we have the courage to pray for God's expansion in our lives, we don't have in mind that His answer often is to provide humility...so that His kind of expansion can occur. Even less do we expect the contexts where humility is often provided...in the destruction of parts of ourselves that we are working hard to expand.
The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
-- Thomas Carlyle
