As humans we have a natural tendency to remove God from what we do. When we become successful , we say I did this all on my own. When it comes to science we also like to remove God as well. Now we even like to remove God from religion.
We remove God from religion by attempting to set up our own means of salvation. Seeking to establish your own righteousness is seeking to be saved by your own works. We all are in danger of this because we are all human. In order to avoid this mistake we must keep our eyes focused on Jesus. No religious acts that we do should give us confidence , but our confidence should rest wholly in Jesus Christ. We must ask for strength to always keep Jesus at the center of our religion and not anything that we can do.

Do you ever find yourself proud about how good you are, especially in contrast to others? Maybe you are "better," but so what? Compare yourself to Christ, and then think about how "good" you really are.

This is a danger that we all fall into. We must realize that to compare ourselves with others pointless. We do not have other humans as our example but we have the perfect spotless Son of God. When we compare ourselves to Jesus then we have no reason to boast.

Prayer: Father thank you for the spotess character of Your Son Jesus. Please help us to continually look unto Jesus the
author and the finisher of our faith. Thank you in Jesus name amen.