Today I am thinking about humility. I have thought a bit about it lately and I have come to realize that it involves a true understanding of oneself. It isn't about making yourself less than you are, it's about knowing that God is responsible for you (and, of course, your gifts).
I am convinced that in the strive to become humble, many people throw off the person that God has created them to be. They do this because they do not understand humility. Sometimes you are the best person for the job, the one with the best and most useful skills, the best looking one, the one with more money, the clean one. Humility doesn't lord this over others, but it doesn't deny the truth.
We are called to "live in a manner worthy of the calling with which we have been called (Eph. 4)." We have been called with the truth of Jesus Christ. Later in the same chapter of Ephesians we read that Jesus ascended on high and He "gave gifts to men." To deny those gifts is to deny the truth of Jesus. To borrow from another (unrelated) passage, "We make God out to be a liar and the truth is not in us."
I want to live out of a place of right and truthful assessment. I do not want to shirk my responsibilities to my community (of believers, of non-believers, whoever) in a fruitless quest for false humility.
I tend to have a desire to implicate the church, as in "The church is stifling us with teachings about false humility and submission," but this isn't about that. It's a personal call. One which asks us to look inside and examine ourselves. I guess, in this case, myself
I am convinced that in the strive to become humble, many people throw off the person that God has created them to be. They do this because they do not understand humility. Sometimes you are the best person for the job, the one with the best and most useful skills, the best looking one, the one with more money, the clean one. Humility doesn't lord this over others, but it doesn't deny the truth.
We are called to "live in a manner worthy of the calling with which we have been called (Eph. 4)." We have been called with the truth of Jesus Christ. Later in the same chapter of Ephesians we read that Jesus ascended on high and He "gave gifts to men." To deny those gifts is to deny the truth of Jesus. To borrow from another (unrelated) passage, "We make God out to be a liar and the truth is not in us."
I want to live out of a place of right and truthful assessment. I do not want to shirk my responsibilities to my community (of believers, of non-believers, whoever) in a fruitless quest for false humility.
I tend to have a desire to implicate the church, as in "The church is stifling us with teachings about false humility and submission," but this isn't about that. It's a personal call. One which asks us to look inside and examine ourselves. I guess, in this case, myself
