Importance of Humility

​Today I need to share some experiences in my life about humility. Humility is one of the most important virtues today because when we are humble, we see that it’s not about us, it’s about God. When we’re humble, we appreciate others for who they are, when we’re humble, we have an opportunity to become like children in God’s eyes, when we’re humble, we’re forgiving and loving, and when we’re humble, we begin to start a journey with joy and peace.

We all are born as children and as we grow, we learn things from our parents or others around us. As we get older, we act out on what we have learned the best way we know how and when we become adults, this is when we can make a choice to be humble.  Sometimes we have to go through some things to learn humility because we create habits as we grow, and we try to fit in to survive.  It doesn’t matter what we’ve been through in life, we must choose to be humble in order to have joy, peace and to serve the mission set by God.

I’m 53 years old and when I was young, I didn’t know what humility was because I was growing in the name of Jesus.  It’s when I got older and went through some trials and tribulations is when I learned the importance of being humble.  Back in the day, I thought I could do everything by myself, solve all problems and just treat people they way I wanted to treat them.  I didn’t have God in my life so I didn’t know what was important.  As I got older, my life became stressful and chaotic.  I was always a good person with a good heart, but I didn’t have wisdom to know what to do in my decision making and I messed up relationships just not seeing through God lenses.

Even as a mother and wife, I made mistakes and I’m still learning to take one day at a time and be a better person to all.  Humility brings joy because we become like children and depend on God for all of our needs even when we mess up. I can’t take back anything that I’ve done in my life but what I can do is ask for forgiveness and work to never hurt anyone again.  Humility helps in decision making, helps in being able to get through situation and it helps to have a peaceful mind.

This world is full of stuff and sometimes we get caught up but we should always know that God is making all of the calls and it’s our job to allow Him to work in our lives and just love our neighbor, forgive one another and have some dignity and respect for all including ourselves.

It doesn’t matter what we’ve been through or going through, we still can practice humility by awaking each day being positive, treating people the way we want to be treated, asking God to guide us each day and just trying to be a good person and when we mess us, fix it and know that God forgives us.  I always said that it’s not about what we’ve done in life but it’s about how we handle ourselves in situations after the fact to learn and grow.

God wants us to be happy, have joy and be at peace while serving.  Let’s look at our lives to see what we need to do to practice humility so we can start living with peace one day at a time.

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Amen and thank you Lord