Treasure Discovered in Humility
Like film, we reflect the image of our exposure choices.
We are free to make choices but we cannot choose the consequences of our choices.
Humility is a choice.
To live is to choose either going our own way or acknowledging our need for a higher authority in our quest for Truth.
Not one of us picked our place of birth.
Half of the world's population live on less than two dollars a day.
We have nothing that was not given to us and we take nothing when we depart.
We often discover humility not by choice but by default in the school of hard knocks.
Humility does not mean I think less of myself but it does mean I think of myself less.
Learning humility with right motives frees us to serve people without hope with pleasure and gusto.
Humility is admitting that I do not have all the answers.
I do not have all the knowledge and wisdom.
I am not self-made.
Humility too often comes by heart breaking external events over which we have no control.
Humility also can flow from the wellspring of a right heart that is controlled by the Sovereign God.
May we never forget that He alone is our maker, redeemer and sustainer.
A Chinese proverb reflects the way to understanding humility,.
"I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember and I do and I understand.
" St Augustine said, "Nothing is truly learned until it is lived.
" Bridging the gap between the truth we have come to know and its application and practice is to live the lessons and discover the treasure of humility.
This author confesses that he is not a model of humility but he is blessed to have as his best friend one who is a perfect model.
If you hang out with this man regularly and learn from his ways and example you will discover the treasure of humility.
His name is Jesus.
He claimed to be the Way, the Truth and the Life.
This transforming Truth frees us to be all God designed us to be.
If we settle for anything or anyone less it leaves a vacuum that only can be filled by our Maker, Redeemer and Sustainer.
Like a fish out of water we struggle for life independent of a personal relationship with God as revealed in Christ.
St Augustine said, "Thou hast made us for thyself O God and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in Thee.
" The discovery of this relationship is the ultimate of humility because it invites the surrender of my control and self to my Maker's control and Lordship as He designed it to be from the beginning of time.
Therein is my identity secured and I am made complete and whole.
The ultimate purpose for our living is to learn more what it means to be a responder to God's perfect and compelling love.
The capacity flows from His wellspring of love to also love my neighbor as myself.
Living the lesson of humility is to understand and experience victory in surrender to His control.
"If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their own ways, then they will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and heal their land.
" II Chronicles 7:14
We are free to make choices but we cannot choose the consequences of our choices.
Humility is a choice.
To live is to choose either going our own way or acknowledging our need for a higher authority in our quest for Truth.
Not one of us picked our place of birth.
Half of the world's population live on less than two dollars a day.
We have nothing that was not given to us and we take nothing when we depart.
We often discover humility not by choice but by default in the school of hard knocks.
Humility does not mean I think less of myself but it does mean I think of myself less.
Learning humility with right motives frees us to serve people without hope with pleasure and gusto.
Humility is admitting that I do not have all the answers.
I do not have all the knowledge and wisdom.
I am not self-made.
Humility too often comes by heart breaking external events over which we have no control.
Humility also can flow from the wellspring of a right heart that is controlled by the Sovereign God.
May we never forget that He alone is our maker, redeemer and sustainer.
A Chinese proverb reflects the way to understanding humility,.
"I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember and I do and I understand.
" St Augustine said, "Nothing is truly learned until it is lived.
" Bridging the gap between the truth we have come to know and its application and practice is to live the lessons and discover the treasure of humility.
This author confesses that he is not a model of humility but he is blessed to have as his best friend one who is a perfect model.
If you hang out with this man regularly and learn from his ways and example you will discover the treasure of humility.
His name is Jesus.
He claimed to be the Way, the Truth and the Life.
This transforming Truth frees us to be all God designed us to be.
If we settle for anything or anyone less it leaves a vacuum that only can be filled by our Maker, Redeemer and Sustainer.
Like a fish out of water we struggle for life independent of a personal relationship with God as revealed in Christ.
St Augustine said, "Thou hast made us for thyself O God and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in Thee.
" The discovery of this relationship is the ultimate of humility because it invites the surrender of my control and self to my Maker's control and Lordship as He designed it to be from the beginning of time.
Therein is my identity secured and I am made complete and whole.
The ultimate purpose for our living is to learn more what it means to be a responder to God's perfect and compelling love.
The capacity flows from His wellspring of love to also love my neighbor as myself.
Living the lesson of humility is to understand and experience victory in surrender to His control.
"If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their own ways, then they will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and heal their land.
" II Chronicles 7:14
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