Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.
Colossians 3:12
And all of you, dress yourselves in humility as you relate to one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor.
1 Peter 5:5b,6
• Pride is
Pride leads to destruction; a proud attitude brings ruin.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride leads to disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Proverbs 11:2
Pride leads to conflict; those who take advice are wise.
Proverbs 13:10
Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor.
Proverbs 29:23
- “I’m better than you” = pride.
- “I can handle it” = pride.
- “It doesn’t apply to me” = pride.
• Humility is
“The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. Rather may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God’s estimate of his own life. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is in the sight of God of more importance that angels. In himself, nothing; in God, everything. That is his motto.” —Theologian, A.W. Tozer
You rescue the humble, but you humiliate the proud.
Psalm 18:27
He leads the humble in doing right, teaching them his way.
Psalm 25:9
Though the Lord is great, he cares for the humble, but he keeps his distance from the proud.
Psalm 138:6
The Lord supports the humble, but he brings the wicked down into the dust.
Psalm 147:6
For the Lord delights in his people; he crowns the humble with victory.
Psalm 149:4
The humble will be filled with fresh joy from the Lord.
Isaiah 29:19a
My hands have made both heaven and earth; they and everything in them are mine. I, the Lord, have spoken! “I will bless those who have humble and contrite hearts, who tremble at my word.”
Isaiah 66:2
- A posture of dependence and brokenness.
- A passion to be teachable and obedient.
“Humility is probably the most unpopular virtue demanded by the gospel, yet until man is humble, no good thing can come from him no matter what he may do. The Lord can do such great things for us if we are humble and so very little for us when we are proud.” —Unknown
- Our
- Humility is
• Humility is not thinking
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!
Philippians 2:3-8
“The lower he stoops to save us, the higher we ought to lift him in our adoring reverence. Blessed be his name, he stoops, and stoops, and stoops, and, when he reaches our level, and becomes man, he still stoops, and stoops, and stoops lower and deeper yet.” —Charles Spurgeon
9 Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:9-11