Humility

Wanting to become the person that I have always thought about being I thought that I would look at different characteristic traits and see what they look like. One characteristic that i would love to have is humility.

So many times we want to live out something that we don't even know what it really is or what it looks like so before i applied it to my life i decided to check it out. With a help of a friend we decided to take a week and learn about humility this is what we have learned.

"Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less."

Humility: The quality or condition of being humble (Dictionary.com)Humility: A prominent Christian grace. It is a state of mind well pleasing to God; it preserves the soul in tranquility and makes us patient under trials. Christ has set us an example of humility. We should be lead thereto by a remembrance of our sins and by the thought that it is the way to honor and that the greatest promises are made to the humble. It is a "great paradox in Christianity that makes humility the avenue to glory." (BibleDictionary.com)

Humility & PrideProverbs is direct and forceful in rejecting pride. The proud attitude heads the list of seven things God hates (6:16-17). The harmful results of pride are constantly contrasted with humility and benefits.

** Proverbs 11:2 "When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom

There are so many times in our lifes that we want to safe ourselves. We want to be known and heard. At the end of the day it is natural to think about ourselves. When trouble hits we want to safe ourselves. When words fly and people say some not so nice things we naturally want to strike back and defend ourselves. Why?

Because we have pride and we don't want to some one to think less of us. We don't like to be looked down upon.

1 Peter 2:23 says that when they hurled their insults He did not relatiate, when he suffered he made no threats, instead he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. I really like this verse because i am just the oppisite. I am constanlty defending myself, so desperatly wanting people to know who i am. As i read this verse Jesus didn't care what they did or what they said because he knew that God was the Judge and he will bring justice. It allows me to relax and know that i don't need to defend myself when people want to say thing or think things. They might be right and they might be wrong. God already knows and that is all that matters. If they want to know what my thougths are they will ask.

Humility, something that is so hard to live with these days but something that is so liberating to have.

I am so excited to learn about perserverance this coming week.