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E19 Humility | Part 2

By April 20, 2022No Comments2 min read

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.

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Bob Swank

About 15 years ago our heavenly Father began encouraging me in my role as His son and out of that in my role as a father, both biologically and spiritually. Through multiple encounters on my journey God has revealed His heart as my Father and affirmed my sonship in Him. Out of this has come His call to fully embrace who He has created me to be as a father and to share that with others.

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