Humility

Don’t you just love meeting people who exude the humility and fragrance of Christ? I remember working at McDonald’s on St. John Street in Portland many years ago and struggling greatly with anger, sexual sin, and loneliness when a man came into the dining room with his meal and sat down. There was something about him that made me ask if he was a believer in Christ…

What, in all human experience, is more elusive than humility? As soon as you think you have it, you have lost it! Sometimes we may wonder if it is even possible to obtain, or worth pursuing humility. Some of us may even despair of ever finding a hint of humility in us…

When I was in counseling for a deep depression I experienced some years ago, my counselor had me repeat a phrase that seems so obvious, yet it is amazing how its truth was so elusive to me at the time. That phrase was this – “God is God, and I am not.”