Humility

M inspired me to blog about humility. Recently, one of my sisters has been going on an emotional rollar-coaster ride, and taking many of us along with her. Now of course everyone has their good days and their bad days, but for this sister, she often seems to have more bad days than good, and the things that she claims causes her bad days, IMO (in my opinion), are not always worth of sympathy.

And of course that's where my problem lies, because I'm trying to view her struggles IMO. "To practice humility, we need to think less of ourselves and more of others." To this sister, her struggles are real, the obstacles are huge, and the darkness is thick. I pray that God will help me remember that, and put myself in her shoes, even when she calls me at the most inconvenient times to talk, even when it's late at night, and even when it seems like she will never understand or change.

God never gave up on us, so how can we give up so easily on others, who are struggling and need our help?

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."

#56 Humility

Yikes...so how many weeks am I behind? I will just keep going forward.

I was really blessed by Jaeson Ma's post on Humility. I could really relate to his struggles dealing with pride. He wrote, "To practice humility, we need to think less of ourselves and more of others." This is a challenge, because friends have recently come to me sharing their stories and I quickly give them a list of "what they should do" and "what not to do" when all along, all they needed was a friend to listen and understand them fully...
how foolish and arrogant of me to see myself as the "know it all."
God is opening my eyes to see that we are all sinners, we are created equal..of course I know this, but do I live this out daily?
my friends don't need me to ramble on with advice and judgment, what they really need is love and support.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
-Ken Blanchard

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. -Proverbs 27:17