Holy or holier-than-though?

What is worse than being self-righteous? Being so submissive to the authority of man that God is not the center of personal worship. Taking someone's word for it, following blindy without checking things out...and not loving God enough to really dig into His Word, not praying to Him and Him alone, not even caring enough to obey God the Father that is also God the Son and God the Holy Spirit... it's like a flood of disillusionment and setting the self up for pain. We ache to serve...and then we serve to ache so that we know what it is like to suffer as the martyrs did. But God knows that would nullify all His work as Jesus. May God bless us in this understanding.