SEEKING HUMILITY
D. Danner

When we accept Jesus as our Savior, we are at a place of humility.  We have admitted we do not have the power to save ourselves by the way we live.  In humility we reach out to receive the pardon  provided us by Jesus' shed blood.  In Colossians 3:12-13 we are told to put on humbleness of mind, meekness and longsuffering.  We are to forebear one another, and forgive one another.  These attributes require humility.
In I Peter 5:6 we are told to humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God.

From that point of humility, it's all too easy to get caught up in a power trip.  But our Christian journey through life needs to be one of loving service in which we continue to come before God in humility.  Once we are free of the baggage of sin and guilt that weighed us down we sometimes tend to forget that the power and glory are God's, not ours.  How wonderful to rejoice in the gifts God gives us through the Holy Spirit.  But too often, without realizing it, we let another spirit slip in, the spirit of pride that puffs up.  Humility, not pride, is the fruit of God's Holy Spirit.  But humility is a fruit produced most often by periodic pruning of the "tree".  This pruning might be referred to as humbling experiences.

Ponder, if you will, the perishable nature of humility.  There it grows on our "branches".  We look at it and admire its fullness.  Too often we don't realize that in that instant a tiny worm of pride reaches our fruit and will soon spoil it unless we come before God and acknowledge His greatness - and our total dependence upon Him.  Seeking humility is a life-long process.

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