Humility

Brenden Ashby
03/03/24 - Sun AM

Humility

Brenden Ashby

Humility is a foundational trait for the Christian. Without it, one can’t enter the kingdom of God (Matt. 5:3). Yet humility does not come easy. This is why, I believe, God thoroughly instructs us in His word about how to grow in humility. We need to know three things about humility if we are to grow in it.

Humility begins with God. When I have a proper understanding of how great God is (Ps. 8), of how powerful He is (Eccl. 5:2), and how deep His love goes (Rom. 5:8), I will say, like David, “Who I am compared to God?” It is a humbling experience even to grasp a fraction of who God is.

Humility comes by God’s grace. When I understand who God is, I will also recognize that all that I am and all that I have is because of Him (Jas. 1:17). Paul understood this point deeply. Paul was motivated by God’s grace to labor with all he had for Him. And yet, after all that Paul did, he humbly and readily confessed that it was God, not Paul, who should get all the credit (1 Cor. 15:10). He understood who God was and who he was, resulting in a humble spirit.

Finally, in many places in the Bible, humility is a verb. If we are to grow in humility we must be practice humility. The life of a Christian is a life spent humbling ourselves under God’s care and authority (1 Pet. 5:6-7; Jas. 1:21-22).  Humbling ourselves before God should also result in us humbling ourselves to each other in loving service (1 Pet. 5:5; Phil. 2:3-4).