Are We Practicing Enough Humility as Christians?
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Not sure if you are meaning not correcting one another when in context...
Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.[SUP]2 [/SUP]Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.[SUP] 3 [/SUP]For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.[SUP]4 [/SUP]When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.[SUP]5 [/SUP]Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:[SUP]6 [/SUP]For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:[SUP] 7 [/SUP]In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.[SUP] 8 [/SUP]But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.[SUP]9 [/SUP]Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;[SUP] 10 [/SUP]And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:[SUP]11 [/SUP]Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. [SUP]12 [/SUP]Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. [SUP]14 [/SUP]And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. [SUP]15 [/SUP]And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
If that was what you were trying to apply that verse 12 to mean, you are forgetting the warning and the consequence for ignoring that warning given to believers, if you think correcting one another is not a sign of humility. Correcting one another is a sign of Christ's love in seeking their good standing in the Lord in maintaining that proper fellowship with the Father & the Son.
The writer appears to me to be encouraging them, not saying they are only pretending or faking...
Humility can be that but after reading Lamentations 3rd chapter, it can also be accepting our persecution as from God & thus a doormat, but looking forward to our deliverance.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Lamentations+3&version=KJV
I do not see persecution because of our faith as coming from God. Persecution will come at some point in time to anyone standing up for and exercising their faith. Scripture tells us that. Each of us are unique as God has made us and each of us has personal dignity because we are made in the image of God. We should be humble with one another if for no other reason than that.
Having humility means that you are given God the credit for any good that has come out of your life. It has nothing to do with being a doormat.
You asked a very interesting question.
Humility, or humbleness, seems to go hand in hand with the next trait mentioned, meekness. So, yes, that seems right.
All truth (or reality) comes from the Holy Spirit as Children of God whom are now living spiritually. Thus, humility is just a revelation of facts.
Fact number one: We must be dead to the right to ourselves in order to be productive in righteousness; and two: We are enlivened and empowered in Christ whom is far and above anything that we could hope to produce in this human structure and mind, apart from God thru Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit...we are nothing!
Thus, humility is not an ideal; it is the unconscious result of the life being rightly related to God and centered in Him. When we say, "I think humility is....etc," my spirit is immediately burdened, for there is nothing more awful than conscious humility; it is the most Satanic type of pride. To consciously serve is to be worse than the Pharisee who is eaten up with conceit.
What did The Lord of heaven and earth say? "Learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly of heart." (Matthew 11:29). If Jesus Christ cannot produce a meekness and lowliness of heart like His own, Christianity is nonsense from beginning to end, and His teaching had better be blotted out. But my testimony is that I have received His revelation spiritually and mindfully in way of righteousness. Thus, now I am convinced that any self-awareness is of no value in the Kingdom of God; it is, in fact, enmity towards God. Thus, my empowerment in Christ is solely His to claim and as a result, humility is contoured and constructed into my character rightly so in relationship to Spiritual truth.. This is not me then saying, "I think humility is.." It is me saying, "I know my Father whom is in Heaven and is the author of all wisdom and I am not, yet it is He who is my life now in Christ Jesus! Therefore I am humble for this is reality in righteousness (a properly aligned relationship with God)..to both the depravity of my sinful nature, and to the glory of God's miraculous grace and power found in me.
We who have experienced "CC" for awhile have seen many quarrels amongst ourselves, I even would venture a guess that some would argue that point, in that we are discussing deliberately with ordained judgements, but suffice it to say - the point of humility in our character requires us to ask the question - What causes fights and quarrels among us? Don't they come from our desires that battle within us? We want something but don't get it. We go as far as to kill and covet, yet we cannot have what we want. We quarrel and fight! We do not have because we do not ask God. When we ask, we do not receive, because we ask with wrong motives that we may spend what we get on our pleasures.
As I look into that section of James I also look further in relationship to humility playing a fundamental role in our character, being properly aligned to God, when James states, "Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is you boast and brag! All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who (while being properly aligned in a relationship with God in Christ; being humble (factual revelation), where He loves us first and asks of us to be His Ambassadorship as Lord and co-worker In Chirst) who knows the good he ought to do (spiritual awareness and not self-awareness) and doesn't do it sins.
To add: The sphere of humiliation (that's right humiliation and not simply humility) is always the place of more satisfaction to Jesus Christ, and it is in our power to refuse to be humiliated, to say, "No, thank you, I much prefer to be on the mountaintop with God." Do I believe that God engineers my circumstances, that it is He who brings me each day into contact with the people I meet?
Am I faithful enough to Him to know that all I meet with in the ordinary deliberations of every day by chance or haphazard is absolutely under His dominance and rule? Do I face the humiliation which sometimes comes in my contact with people with perfect knowledge that God is working out His own will?
We must consider this over considering in human reasoning humility or humiliation - "Are we properly aligned with God thru Jesus Christ?; number one. And, number two; "Are we faithful to Him to such a point that, as He leads us, and loves us His way, are we immediately obeying Him?" For those of us in Christ now live spiritually and not in the flesh at all! Is Satan producing an idea in us mindfully that we are serving God's doctrines morally in the flesh which is the same thing? And that God can do things in us, even many things, but not all things?
I pray we all support each other in prayer as we guard our hearts. I am humbled by my Lord and Savior. But it is there I am also a New Creation empowered in Himself! To Him be the glory!! That is a fact Jack! Our Humility (or lack of self-awareness) is factual in Christ. Not something to obtain, but rather something He gives us in our character.
Fact number one: We must be dead to the right to ourselves in order to be productive in righteousness; and two: We are enlivened and empowered in Christ whom is far and above anything that we could hope to produce in this human structure and mind, apart from God thru Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit...we are nothing!
Thus, humility is not an ideal; it is the unconscious result of the life being rightly related to God and centered in Him. When we say, "I think humility is....etc," my spirit is immediately burdened, for there is nothing more awful than conscious humility; it is the most Satanic type of pride. To consciously serve is to be worse than the Pharisee who is eaten up with conceit.
What did The Lord of heaven and earth say? "Learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly of heart." (Matthew 11:29). If Jesus Christ cannot produce a meekness and lowliness of heart like His own, Christianity is nonsense from beginning to end, and His teaching had better be blotted out. But my testimony is that I have received His revelation spiritually and mindfully in way of righteousness. Thus, now I am convinced that any self-awareness is of no value in the Kingdom of God; it is, in fact, enmity towards God. Thus, my empowerment in Christ is solely His to claim and as a result, humility is contoured and constructed into my character rightly so in relationship to Spiritual truth.. This is not me then saying, "I think humility is.." It is me saying, "I know my Father whom is in Heaven and is the author of all wisdom and I am not, yet it is He who is my life now in Christ Jesus! Therefore I am humble for this is reality in righteousness (a properly aligned relationship with God)..to both the depravity of my sinful nature, and to the glory of God's miraculous grace and power found in me.
We who have experienced "CC" for awhile have seen many quarrels amongst ourselves, I even would venture a guess that some would argue that point, in that we are discussing deliberately with ordained judgements, but suffice it to say - the point of humility in our character requires us to ask the question - What causes fights and quarrels among us? Don't they come from our desires that battle within us? We want something but don't get it. We go as far as to kill and covet, yet we cannot have what we want. We quarrel and fight! We do not have because we do not ask God. When we ask, we do not receive, because we ask with wrong motives that we may spend what we get on our pleasures.
As I look into that section of James I also look further in relationship to humility playing a fundamental role in our character, being properly aligned to God, when James states, "Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." As it is you boast and brag! All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who (while being properly aligned in a relationship with God in Christ; being humble (factual revelation), where He loves us first and asks of us to be His Ambassadorship as Lord and co-worker In Chirst) who knows the good he ought to do (spiritual awareness and not self-awareness) and doesn't do it sins.
To add: The sphere of humiliation (that's right humiliation and not simply humility) is always the place of more satisfaction to Jesus Christ, and it is in our power to refuse to be humiliated, to say, "No, thank you, I much prefer to be on the mountaintop with God." Do I believe that God engineers my circumstances, that it is He who brings me each day into contact with the people I meet?
Am I faithful enough to Him to know that all I meet with in the ordinary deliberations of every day by chance or haphazard is absolutely under His dominance and rule? Do I face the humiliation which sometimes comes in my contact with people with perfect knowledge that God is working out His own will?
We must consider this over considering in human reasoning humility or humiliation - "Are we properly aligned with God thru Jesus Christ?; number one. And, number two; "Are we faithful to Him to such a point that, as He leads us, and loves us His way, are we immediately obeying Him?" For those of us in Christ now live spiritually and not in the flesh at all! Is Satan producing an idea in us mindfully that we are serving God's doctrines morally in the flesh which is the same thing? And that God can do things in us, even many things, but not all things?
I pray we all support each other in prayer as we guard our hearts. I am humbled by my Lord and Savior. But it is there I am also a New Creation empowered in Himself! To Him be the glory!! That is a fact Jack! Our Humility (or lack of self-awareness) is factual in Christ. Not something to obtain, but rather something He gives us in our character.
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