Humility

When you hear the word humble what thoughts come into your mind? Many times we think someone who is being humble is like Eeyore. When we think of humility many times we think it means low self esteem and having a pity party for ourselves. We get this idea of humility as a attitude when we think we are dirt in the ground, scum of the earth, or the worst person in the world. But the Bible speaks of humility in different ways. The Apostle Paul speaks of humility in different ways than low self-esteem. Paul is always telling us we need to be confident and think of ourselves as children of God. We are supposed to have a good self-esteem and think we are important. We need to remember that we are important enough that God in the flesh gave His own blood and life for us. That makes us important and should make us think and have a high self-esteem. Paul on the other hand in Philippians says that humility is the trait of thinking more of others than ourselves (2:1-11). This means we have a good view of ourselves but think higher of others. Being humble means we think of others first, put their needs above our own, and give them what they want as far as preferences above what we want. So being humble is like Jesus. We know how we stand before God and then we take that view and think of others first, always, and continually. Humility is a high view of others above our own.