Everything that pushes me lower, everything that strips me of the last vestige of pride or arrogance or self-reliance—that is the pathway to my exaltation. The lower I go, the higher God lifts me. The less I have in myself, the more I can receive from God. When I am weak, then I am strong. Why? Because God’s power is made perfect in our weaknesses. As long as we have so much of our own, we don’t need much from God. But when we have been stripped of our own, then we need all that God has for us—and