To Be...Humble

September 21

In Rick Warren's books, The Purpose Driven Life, he wrote: 

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less."

Pride is the opposite of humility and God hates pride. 

Confessing our sin stomps out pride and allows humility to bloom.

A thankful heart is a show stopper of pride as well. Stop and tell God 5 things/places/people you are thankful for right now.

"We can thank people for things they do, but thanking God for that person takes it to another level."

Jane Tooher

Jesus exhibited humility.  He showed interest in others by taking time to listen and ask questions of them.  In Matthew 19:14 he said, "Let the children come to me, and don't try to stop them!"  Listening and showing others we think we can learn from them shows not only humility, but love.

Jesus drew the woman at the well into conversation with questions and new life and living water flowed forth.  He did not show himself to be better than her, as a man or as a Jew over a Samaritan.

"Don't be jealous or proud, but be humble and consider others more important than yourselves.  Care about them as much as you care about yourselves."   Philippians 2:3-4 CEV

Jesus exhibited humility for us again and again.

"So Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing.  For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise." John 5:19 

"Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.  And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.  Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name." Philippians 2:5-11