we are not praying much, it is typically because we think, even in our difficulty, that we can handle it.) To “clothe yourself with humility” (1 Pet. 5:5) is to put on the righteousness of Christ (Eph. 6:14), because he humbled himself from heaven to earth, gave up the exploitation of his deity, and prayed his guts out. If the sinless God-man often withdrew to lonely places to pray, what is our excuse? Prayer is the ultimate humility, because it presents the empty cup of ourselves to God for his