When you hear humility, what do you think? What do you feel? When you think about how a pastor

maybe in your past has talked to you about the fact that you need to be humble, how does that land on you?

How has that gone? In today's episode, John and I are going to have a conversation about humility

and about humbling ourselves before and underneath

the mighty hand of God. The purpose for that humility, though, is something that you might not be

thinking about right now. That humility is going to lead to a lot of good because God is mighty

to save and to deliver us. And he is our faithful God who loves us and who desires that we come to him with all of our

anxieties and all of our burdens. And all of that is wrapped up and being humble before him.

We hope this comforts you and encourages you in Christ. Stay tuned. If you're new to Theocast,

you may not have heard of this word. It's called pietism. You ever felt like the Christian life is a heavy burden versus rest and joy? That you wake up worrying about how well you're going to perform instead of thinking about what Christ has done for you. It's dread versus joy, really. That's pietism. Piatism causes Christians to look in on themselves and find their hope, not in what Christ

has done, but what they're doing.

And we have a little book for you.

It's free.

We want you to download it.

And we're going to explain the difference between pietism and what we call confessionalism.

Reform theology, really, how it is that we walk by faith, seeing the joy of Christ,

and when Jesus says, come to me and I will give you rest, what does that look like?

You can download it on our website.

Just go to Theocast.org.

Welcome to Theocast. Welcome to Theocast.

Our aim here is to encourage weary pilgrims.

That's you.

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