One way we can discover what we are really trusting in is to look at what we disparage — or what we tend to despise.

Quick example: if you trust in money for your significance and self-worth you will disparage the poor.  That is why even poor people can justify looking down on lower-class people although they don’t have much themselves.

• If you trust in your wisdom you will disparage stupid people.  But people are rarely as stupid as we think, they are just not as smart as we think we are!
• If you find pride in where you live, then you will shame those who don’t live where you live.  People in the city will look down on the suburbs, while those in the suburbs scoff at those in the city.
• If you gain identity through your beliefs in the role of government, then you will have to look down on the opposite ideology.  (And doesn’t it just sound ridiculous to build a life on what you believe the government should do?)
• If you think you are quite trendy and “with it,” then you’ll mock and shame those who are backward socially or even with their fashion sense.
• If you cloak your identity in being right theologically, then you won’t be able to imagine how God could be happy with those you think are wrong.

And when you trust in God you will still disparage things.  Except it won’t be other people, it will be your own sin and self-righteousness.

I am going to stop here because I am starting to feel guilty.