TRUE HUMILITY

TRUE HUMILITY    

  Humility is not something that can be directly pursued.  It is righteous, but not self-righteous.  

It is confidence, but not not self-confidence.  It is sufficient, but not self-sufficiency.

It is learned in the practice of other virtues.  Be kind and compassionate and humility will knock at 

your door.  Be grateful and unassuming and humility will walk in your shadow.  Be loving

and merciful and humility will live within.

Potent Possibility

     Humility risks humiliation.  Peter said unto Christ, 'Thou shalt never wash my feet' (John 13:8).  

Peter was proud.  Pride neither served nor will it be served.  Simon obviously did not seek the towel

for himself.  Now he would prevent even the Lord from doing what he had shunned to do.  There 

are Christians and even some church leaders who neither serve, and would seemingly prevent all 

others from serving.  Humility risks itself.  It is prepared to  'spend and be spent'  for others.  Jesus 

said, 'If I wash thee not, thou has no part with me'.  See how quickly Peter's pride turns to self-

forgetfulness.  Peter saith unto him,  'Lord, not by feet only, but my hands and my head'.  True 

humility is ready to risk all, and not only purifies feet to carry the message, but the hands to serve, 

and the heart to fully trust.  The lack of humility is the greatest barrier to the uncommitted heart.

     How often do we say, 'Oh, I would really like to be hospitable, and have them home for dinner, 

but you know our furniture is old, and the living-room is small'.  This person is a two time loser.  

They are proud, yet have nothing to be proud of.  Humility would express itself in love and not new 

furniture.  Largeness of the heart is  'room enough'  for strangers to dwell.  Another says,  'Oh, I 

could never teach a class.   Why, I would just as soon face a firing squad'.  Pride has always been a 

great  'self-fester'.  Take that same heart and fill it with a genuine love for truth, and self-eclipsing 

humilty, and there would be no way of keeping the heart from expressing the grace of God.

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