Are You Humble?

I’ve thought about God’s desire, command to be humble. One thing I struggle with is pride and competing to be first.

I felt that if my family was proud of me that I would be more than the abused child or the invisible child. So I excelled at school and later in college and my career in nursing to be best or #1. I often achieved this honour but still felt empty because I was longing for respect from family or others.

I realize now in retirement that what I really longed for was God, God’s respect or acceptance so that I wouldn’t feel invisible anymore.

Through my belief in God and accepting Jesus as my saviour, I live each day confessing my sin of pride and live to be accepted with a character that practices humility, being humble each day, hour, minute.

Now I have the Holy Spirit to remind me when my pride getsin the way. Below are some verses on humility. Are you humble or do you struggle as I did and do?

Some NT verses on humility: I’m

James 4:10: “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”

Philippians 2:3: “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.”

James 4:6: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”

Colossians 3:12: “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.”

1 Peter 5:6: “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.”

(All verses from Holy Bible, NIV 2015)

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