Growing In Humility
Mark 8:34, ‘34 And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.’
Humility is not just one of the virtues/characteristics that we can have, it is our way of living as a disciple of Jesus.
Andrew Murray says in His book, ‘Humility’ - we don’t realize how important ‘Humility’ is, it can be seen in 3 ways:
- The awareness that we are created by God. – We are mortals. We are under the authority of God. We humble ourselves before an Almighty God.
- The awareness of our sinfulness – How often we fail God. Every time we fail, we get disappointed, sad, -- way of feeling humble.
- Emptying ourselves of everything we have, of our ‘self’ and letting God fill us with His power and let His own humility fill us and let that humility flow from us.
- Emptied Himself
- Took the form of a bond-servant, became like a man
- He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death