BECOMING HUMBLE

“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”
James 4:10
Have you ever wondered what humility was all about?
Humility is not thinking negatively about yourself.
It is agreeing with what God says about you.
The grace of God will exalt a person without inflating him
and humble a person without debasing him.
Believers are what they are because of Christ.
In this life, you are not going to be sinless,
but as you deal with sin in your life, you can come closer to being free from sin.
Sinless? No.
Blameless? Yes.
As you confess and stay prayed up, you can be blameless.
This means we confess our sins daily and ask for forgiveness.
It also means we have a desire to stop sinning.
A humble person is a strong person (not weak as some assume them to be).
If you have a concordance in your Bible
do a study on the subject of “humility.”
Start with Philippians 2:3-11.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.
Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God
something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.