Humility

C.J. Mahaney's book, Humility: True Greatness is a must read. I have read it three times and was thinking just a couple of weeks ago that I need to read it again. To summarize the overarching lesson that I learned from this book (and there are dozens of "underarching" lessons) it was this: the sin that is most likely to hold you back from true greatness is that sin that everyone sees but you. Mahaney likens it to a glob of cream cheese on your face about which you are ignorant. I liken it to a third arm that I am unaware of that flips people the bird when I'm not looking. In either image, the idea is that you can't see it but it is damaging your life and witness and consequently, the glory and honor of the Savior. Humility will help you hold up the mirror to see it, and push you into the kind of community wherein it can be exposed and extracted (though experience has shown this to be an utterly painful extraction).