It's funny. "Be humble" is one of the most hackneyed advices of wisdom and yet men's ignorance on its meaning persists unabated. Many seem to believe that humility entails "less than" type of self-abasement. To be fair, if people want to feel like saints by attempting to practice humility, let them. But, to stand by this post's purpose, I do wish to shed light on what it means to be truly humble.
Humility is not analogous to self-loathe. The Cambridge theologian Richard Foster puts it well, defining humility as a skill to "live as close to the truth as possible: the truth about ourselves, the truth about others, the truth about the world in which we live." Makes much more sense, does it not? Simply lowering oneself in the name of humility is a futile pretense. Instead, there should be a search for truth, involving objective evaluation of others as well as self. One must be on a constant journey to find and judge reality as it is.
Ok, then why do we need to be reminded of humility? This is so because pride often gets in the way & blow reality out of proportion, leaving us with an inaccurate picture of reality. And then we end up believing that we are orchestrating our own progress, leaving out God in the equation.
Humility let's us see where & how God is moving in our lives.
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