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Lest you think yourself of any worth -- and trust me, the temptation is always there -- Deut9:4-6 clarifies your place in the greater: so low the stick is touching. It is never because of your righteousness, see? Never because of you.

The second half is the revealing half, though. Because of their wickedness. You are, in all fact, the lesser of two evils. This makes perfect sense, why the devil uses worse points of comparison to puff you up -- because it's true, and the truth is usually the best weapon with which to defeat you.

But do not let it get you down that you were a there-is-no-other choice, cuz the cross covers you even when you were the greater of the two.