"Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” -- Luke 14:11
Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:5-11)
Humility should be a way of life for us. Jesus is very clear throughout the Gospels that there is little or no place for the arrogant in heaven. The path to eternal life is strewn with the wreckages of lives of pride and self-sufficiency. Dependency upon God does not mean a demeaning existence — it simply means that we recognize that without God we are nothing and with Him we have everything. (Kerygma)
FIRST STEP OF HUMILITY - OBEDIENCE
The first step of humility is unhesitating obedience, which comes naturally to those who cherish Christ above all. (St. Benedict -Rule of St. Benedict 5:1-2)
Published: 11/6/12-7:11AM
