come and hear

Sometimes God breaks down our pride with a hammer, melts the rock of our self-confidence with a torch, crushes the solidity of our confidence in our own wisdom with unbearable weight until we crumble, break, and melt with weakness and can only turn to Him to be healed. 

And sometimes He breaks our pride with a waterfall of kindness, of grace, of mercy. 

For you, O God, have tested us;

you have tried us as silver is tried.

You brought us into the net;

you laid a crushing burden on our backs;

you let men ride over our heads;

we went through fire and through water;

yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.

...Come and hear, all you who fear God,

and I will tell what He has done for my soul.