Humility is more acknowleding your weakness. It's taking responsibility for it.
Pride is the opposite of humility but I never realized that shame is part of pride.
Humility goes to the Lord, acknowledges the weakness and takes on the responsibility of working with the Lord to find and enact solutions.
Pride might deny weakness or completely give up on change. "I'm a terrible person" is the cry of giving up or using weakness as an excuse. Shaming yourself is just as prideful as denial. Both ignore the Lord’s out stretched Hand and instead insist on knowing more than our Creator.
It reminds me of the difference between Godly sorrow and mortal sorrow. (2 Corinthians 7:9-11) It's all in where it leads. One leads to the Lord and the other leads anywhere else.
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