RE: The Absolute Truth
March 17, 2013 at 4:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2013 at 4:23 pm by jstrodel.)
Humility is apprehending the nature of God and living out of harmony with the created order. Humility is not claiming to be the smallest.
Humility happens when your pride becomes the glory of God. When your sense of self respect is completely rooted in agreement with the created order, that is when you are humble, when you decrease.
The popular idea of humility despiritualizes it and is a caricature of an incredibly deep concept. True humility is not numerical, it is qualitative, it is not saying I am nothing but it is having your sense of pride becoming so inextricably tied to the glory of God that you see your own existence as being a part of God's.
I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me, the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God
Gal 2:20
Humility is not about self-deprecation, that is just another way of being self centered.
You can't go down if you have nowhere to go up!
Humility happens when your pride becomes the glory of God. When your sense of self respect is completely rooted in agreement with the created order, that is when you are humble, when you decrease.
The popular idea of humility despiritualizes it and is a caricature of an incredibly deep concept. True humility is not numerical, it is qualitative, it is not saying I am nothing but it is having your sense of pride becoming so inextricably tied to the glory of God that you see your own existence as being a part of God's.
I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me, the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God
Gal 2:20
Humility is not about self-deprecation, that is just another way of being self centered.
You can't go down if you have nowhere to go up!
