Today Steve and Bob talk about what it looks like to choose humility. It means embracing and celebrating what is true about God, what is true about others, and what is true about ourselves.
We are a mixture of strengths and weaknesses. Last week we talked about humility enabling us to celebrate our strengths in a healthy way. Humility also gets real about our weaknesses.
Humility confesses our sins and our faults. When I choose humility I choose to take full responsibility for my sin. I don’t make excuses. I don’t blame other people. I call my sin what it is. Humility says, “I was wrong. I did this. Please forgive me.”
I can be tempted to think that if I confess my sin some people might reject me. . .and they might. But if we don’t humble ourselves. . .we may miss out on God’s grace.
Humility is choosing to be known before God, others, and ourselves. Humility chooses a lifestyle of transparency. This transparency isn’t arrogant or flippant. It is not a “what you see is what you get” attitude.
When we do life with others in a healthy environment we aren’t hiders. Instead we are open with each other and we cover each other in kindness, forgiveness, and mercy. A community of people that is real in this way is irresistible to a starving world. Individual humility equals corporate unity.
Live in a way that embraces both of these truths.
- I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
- Apart from Him, I am nothing.
