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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

"75% Humility"

"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love" (Ephesians 4:2).

Yesterday Brooksyne was listening to one of our local Christian radio stations when the announcer gave a brief weather report. Along with the temperature she reported that we have 75% humility. She immediately recognized her misspeak and corrected the word to humidity and made a quip as well about being humble.

Unintentionally misspeaking is sure one of the ways God uses to humble me. I was recently leading a group in the Lord's Prayer and since I have been in some groups that use "trespasses" and some that use "debts" I tend to get confused at this point. When I came to this part I said forgive us our "debtpasses".  (My Amish friend says he just says "sins" and I am sure that covers it.)

The Biblical standard for humility is 100%. Notice in the daily Scripture text Paul writes "be completely humble."  This is an aspiration that I suppose few of us have attained. Are any of you reading this completely humble? Actually it seems to me that anyone making such a claim would be proud of their humility thus negating being completely humble!

Peter wrote, "All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble" (1 Peter 5:5).  Today may we all clothe ourselves with humility!


Be encouraged today,


Stephen C. Weber

Note from Brooksyne:  I've often thought back to my freshman year in Bible College when I was in an intense study of I & II Corinthians.  I was growing spiritually and I was very committed to many hours of daily prayer.  In fact people began to take notice and came to me with their prayer needs.  I began, in my spirit, to realize that people were looking to me and sadly it began to make my head swell!  Eventually the Scripture, "Pride comes before the fall" came home to me and prayer became a serious struggle.  I realized that my spiritual growth birthed in humility died in my personal battle with pride.  As the saying goes, "Humility is that virtue that once you think you have it, you've lost it!"

"Jesus, we know that none of us are 100% humble, for we are clothed in these mortal, fallible bodies.  But we do know that You are completely humble and we look to You as our example.  As we clothe ourselves in Your righteousness we can overcome the pride that is ever before us.  We recognize that no good thing can come from us, but all that is good comes from You.  Remind us daily that gratitude is the antidote for feelings of pride.  When we acknowledge that everything we have and all that we are is due to Your merciful blessings we are humbled and grateful to You, the Giver of every good and perfect gift.  Thank you, Amen."

Photo of flower arrangement
A flower arrangement that Brooksyne made in memory of a little girl named Emily who died.

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