“Consider Themselves Fools”
Humility is the beginning of true faith. It consists in a realization of one’s strengths and weaknesses, an awareness that through Christ one’s personal infirmities and weaknesses can be identified and conquered, and that only through a reliance upon the merits of the Master can weak things be transformed into strengths (Ether 12:27). A realization of one’s dependence upon the divine is essential to retaining a remission of sins from day to day (see Mosiah 2:21; Mosiah 4:11). “Let no man deceive himself. if any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” (1 Corinthians 3:18-19; cf. John 9:39-41.)
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