Clothed in humility

… be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, - 1 Peter 5.5b-6

Humility goes against our grain. At least it goes against my grain. Pride is always a battle. In a follow up to yesterdays instruction to submit to each other Peter follows up with the ‘how.’

Be clothed with humility. Humble yourselves. 

I have heard it said the ‘humility is that one virtue that when you think you have achieved it you have lost it.’ How do we do it? How do we learn how to be truly humble?

It is really pretty simple if we could just cop on to the humility of Christ. The humility of Christ led Him to the cross in my place. It led His to take on flesh and blood. It led Him to take on the role of a servant. 

With that kind of comparison I have to wonder what my humility it like. When people see Roger do they see a man clothed in humility? 

There is a blessing if we could ever realise and apply the practice of humility – if we humble ourselves to the hand of God the day will come when He will exalt us. 

And I think His exalting will be a lot better than ours.