LOVE IS HUMBLE
Humility is Love in Position or
Status
Love is humble; it does not think
highly of itself than it should. It does not boast; it is not proud.
First,
humility means being quiet about yourself. The humble person does not vaunt or parade
herself; he is not a braggart. Love is not puffed up. It does not blow the
horns when it does good to someone.
Second,
it means not looking down on others. It considers others better than itself. The
humble person is not arrogant. She does say sorry!
Third,
it means letting others shine. It means giving them the chance to deliver and
believing in them, thinking they can do better.
Pride
Costs
Pride
is a sin. It makes us exalt ourselves at the expense of God, thus displacing
Him – It is a complete anti-God state of the mind.
A
friend once told me a story of a frog who could not keep silence but boast of
his idea.
‘Two
friends, a frog and a bird, for many years lived happily together until famine
struck their land such that they had nothing to eat. They heard of abundant
food in a distant land and so they decided to go there for food but there was a
problem; the frog could not fly.
Then
the frog came up with a beautiful plan: Alright, Friend, you will hold a stick
in your claws so that I can also hold unto the stick with my mouth, then we can
all move together. “This is a very lovely idea”, said the bird, “We will try
that.”
The
next day, the two friends set off implementing their beautiful plan which
worked very well for them until something happened. A young boy saw the two
friends pass by in the air and he became so marveled that he could not hold his
breadth so he shouted, “this is so wise of you, who thought of it?” The frog
could not keep quiet and decided to boast of his idea. It opened its mouth to speak, and your guess
is as good as mine.
Humility
Pays
Humility
is God’s way to greatness. He resists the proud, but exalts the humble.
Christ
lived a life of humility. He emptied himself of all reputation, laid aside his
glory and his riches, and came to the earth to be born among the lowly in a
manger; but it was the way towards exaltation.
Paul
says: "Therefore God also has highly exalted him and given Him the name
which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of
those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that
every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the
Father" (Phil 2:9-11).
Christ
advised his hearers, when they are invited to a great dinner, not to sit down
in the best places, but to go and sit in the lowest seat; and then if it was
proper for them to have the higher place, the host would honor them by public
invitation to the better seat.
We,
too, shall come to our highest through sacrificing ourselves in humility for
the blessing of others. We are to find exaltation by humility.
Love
and Pride do not mix
Love
and pride are parallel. They do not mix.
Love
is not proud and haughty. It does not look down on others, but sees them as important,
and even more important. Love values everyone, and so all who come into contact
with a person full of love leaves feeling special, valuable and built up.
Pride
must be served, but love serves. Pride lives and seeks for self, humility lives
and seeks for others.
Pride keeps people in a prison called “Self”, made up of
only three persons; “Me, Myself and I.”
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