I would love to know everyones thoughts on "HUMILITY"
I hope I posted in the right place :-\ :)
Wow, Hayley! You really pick 'em! I do think you posted in the right place. The problem is in giving the right answer.
The fruit of the Spirit, according to Paul, is "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control." I would think that "humility" is just having all these things without taking credit for them. The original Greek for "humble" denotes "lowness, lack of conceit."
So humility, then, is really giving of credit where credit is due - to the Lord alone. And the grace of humility is therefore the habit of giving that credit to the Lord.
Hi Al,
I guess the main reason I'm constantly thinking about the word Humility.. is...
several weeks ago I went to see the Passion of Christ.. I just wanted to become humble.. really humble...
Sometimes life makes you so busy with day to day matters, I forget what I've been so wonderfully blessed with... Eternity! I think of how I'm just a speck of sand and I was loved so much that Christ would die for me..
How can you really understand it all?
How do you show complete thankfulness?
How in this day and age can you show such adoration for the gift of salvation?
Hayley - I too saw the "Passion." The things that our Lord went through were beyond description. And He did indeed do that for us. But actually, that movie didn't even really dwell upon the greatest suffering our Lord experienced.
To explain, I need to back up a step or two. Our Lord, after all, was God the Son, the eternally begotten One, the One Who understood and loved the Father as no one else ever could. Who could hate sin as He could? He
knew the Father! He
knew how good, how holy, how loving, how ' ' ' wonderful the Father is. But now, on the Cross, He had to feel as if He, loving Son that He is, was the One Who had committed all the sins that have ever been committed against His Father by all of His people! He Who loved the Father as no one else! That's why, on the Cross, He said those tragic words, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachtani!" Carefully translated, those words mean, "My God, My God, for what have You turned Your back upon Me?" He knew what it was! When He said, "For what," He knew the answer. It was our sin. He died of a broken heart.
And we must say, "Why for me, Oh Jesus?" The only answer that can be given is that what He did glorified the love of God as nothing else could. It revealed the very heart of God. It wasn't because
we were better than others. We have NOTHING to offer. It was just because His Father's love was glorified.
You said,
QuoteI'm just a speck of sand and I was loved so much that Christ would die for me..
. You're right. So are we all. Give yourself and all your life to Him. It will never be enough, but He will glorify Himself. Leave it to Him.