"Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.  And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us.  God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.  By this, love is perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.  We love, because He first loved us.  If someone says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.  And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also."

Why does God consider our confessions so important?  When we confess that Jesus is the Son of God, we must also confess something else:  that we are not!

To consider someone else higher than we are is a difficult thing, but worth every assault on our will.  This is how we love and this is how we abide in God. 

If you seek righteousness - seek others first.