Humility

A few months ago I was getting ready to speak to a group of women. I had everything the Lord had given me to release on paper. I just needed someone else to submit it to. Someone to make sure I was correct biblically. So I met up with a chaplain here and let her look over what I had and offer council.

She looked over all of it and loved it. She thought it was great. Thats not what we ended up talking about. I began to explain my nervousness to her. My fear of getting it wrong. She looked at me and said thats not humility. Well at least not biblical humility. Thats humility to man, and thats not what God tells us to do.

It got my wheels turning and ever since then I’ve been in conversation with the Lord on what humility looks like. In the moment where I was fearful to stand up and speak was a moment I would later have to repent for. It was a moment where God called me a moment He handed to me. He gave me sweet things to give to other women. Instead of humbling myself to His call, His gift, I chose to be fearful of getting it wrong for so the women who’s ears it would fall on. I chose to believe that was ok. It was ok to be nervous and fear that.

Which in my head made sense because we aren’t supposed to be prideful. I had equated my humility to man with humility to God. Ouch!

When I say the word humility, I see me bowing down, giving up my life, my gifts, to the authority of the one who’s feet I am at. In fact the definition of humility is placing yourself of lower importance to someone or to rank lower than another. This would mean when I humble myself to another human, I am placing them in a rank above me. They become of more importance than myself. Which doesn’t sound terrible. In actuality though, it is. What I am actually doing is instead of placing the authority in God I am placing it in the hands of another man. That sounds a lot like idol worship doesn’t it friends?

When Joseph dreams that he and his brothers are stalks of wheat and he is over them as they bow down to him. He didn’t have to share that with Israel (Jacob). Yet, I think He understood something much more deeply than we do. He understood that was from the Lord. He knew that it would not be taken lightly by his older brothers. The culture they were in is evident of that. Yet he spoke freely because his humility was not in his brothers. It was in the Lord.

God calls us to view others as His children. His children are called, important, made with a purpose. Contrary to what the world tells us, we CAN view others that way while also viewing ourselves that way. We can do this because JESUS! Thats one of my favorite things to say whenever out of the box thinking comes along haha!

If your view of another is beginning to change the way you act, think, speak in such a way that you look to them for comfort, affirmation, assurance, etc. ABOVE our Father than the time to reflect on where your humility is placed is now.

When I turn and am humble to another it is not the person I am humbling myself to, it is the Christ in them not the man in them. We’ve been taught for so long that humility to man is necessary. That we should be placing another person above us. I don’t have to place someone else above me to serve them, to love them. I one hundred percent do not have to disobey or try to silence the Christ in me while doing so.

Bowing down in humility to the world around us is nothing more than idol worship. Bowing down at the feet of Jesus in humility will birth the fruit we are all longing for.

The Lord opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. (Proverbs 3:34)