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To say this usually evokes a vigorous response.
VIGOROUS RESPONDER: Did you say, "We can't set the situation right ourselves"? What defeatist talk! Certainly we can set the situation right, if we are just determined enough. We will try specially hard to do what we should. We will do more than we usually do. If pride is our problem, we will be very, very humble before God. And in time the surplus of good will overcome the deficit of evil from the past. Don't tell us that we're powerless. We're going to lick this thing ourselves!
Actually, this only makes the situation worse. Our problem is that we "think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think." We must stop being proud and arrogant, and become humble. When we recognize this, we say to ourselves, "We will strive with all our might to be humble." And what happens? To the extent that we succeed, we become aware of how humble we are, and, try as we will, we are unable to avoid the conclusion that it is pretty grand of us to be so humble. We really have been very good about it -- much better than a lot of people we know. God must be pleased at the splendid character of our humility.
What has happened? We have become proud of being humble. But does recognition of this solve our problem? No, even as we become aware of this fact, we are in danger of being proud of the fact that we recognized that we were proud of being humble.
We are caught, and we seem doomed to remain caught. We cannot escape.
Unless, of course, God should decide to help us.
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