HUMILITY


HUMILITY
Everybody is better than you! Of course, I know your primary reaction will be to repel this statement in your mind, but this is how the Bible admonishes us to think. Philippians 2:3 needs no interpretation: “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves” (NIV).
Jonathan Edwards called pride “the worst viper that is in the heart” and “the greatest disturber of the soul’s peace and sweet communion with Christ”; he ranked pride as the most difficult sin to root out, and “the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts”. John Calvin once said that “God cannot bear with seeing His glory appropriated by the creature in even the smallest degree, so intolerable to Him is the sacrilegious arrogance of those who, by praising themselves, obscure His glory as far as they can”.
True greatness is attained only by following Christ’s example. Are you following Christ? These are Christ’s words: “The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28). Jesus also said “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all” (Mark 9:35).Any form of ‘wisdom’ that teaches us to behave in any way different from what our Lord did or said is devilish and worldly.
God opposes the proud (James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:15). Let us heed this scriptural advice: “Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others” (Philippians 2:4).

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