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September 6, 2026

True greatness is not self-sufficient strength, but humility like that of a little child. The greatness of childlike faith receives all good things as gracious gifts from our Father in heaven. Apart from such faith, “you will never enter the kingdom of heaven,” but whoever is humbled like a little child will be “the greatest in the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3–4). Though in our sin we deserve to be “drowned in the depth of the sea” (Matthew 18:6), we have instead been drowned (“buried”) with Christ in Baptism and then raised to the new, humble life of a child of God.

The Lord sends His watchman to warn us with a word from His mouth, in order that we may not die in our iniquity but be turned from our pride and selfishness to live (Ezekiel 33:7–9).

Thus, we live in humility and faith before God as well as in love for our neighbor, which “is the fulfilling of the law” (Romans 13:10). In the reverent fear of God, we do no harm to our neighbor, but we “pay to all what is owed to them” (Romans 13:7) and we “owe no one anything, except to love each other” (Romans 13:8).