One of the most important virtues and perhaps the most difficult to maintain is that of humility. It seems like every time we enjoy a season of blessing or success our hearts get distanced a bit from trusting the Lord and our perspective on our own importance can be significantly over exagerated.
Humility is an awareness that we're both imperfect and worthwhile at the same time. Humility is a high ground that traverses the bogs and swamps of great achievement and at times, self-hatred. At times, humility choses to follow God's plan over our own. When we live humbly, which can be defined as consistently choosing God's way of doing things over our own way of doing things, amazingly good things begin to happen to otherwise difficult people like me.
Humility also involves a component of acceptance of ourselves, sin and all. Humility helps us to see ourselves with one eye which evaluates and another eye which appreciates. It's not an easy balance to strike but one that is essential if we are to remain healthy and productive without becoming prideful and wayward from our God of great love.
In His grace,
Dr. Jay
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