READ: 1 Corinthians 9:19-23

«For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.» - 1 Corinthians 9:19

It is easy to say to someone, “Be humble” but what exactly should he do to make himself humble? There are so many opinions about what humility is, but the best person to ask is Jesus. What did Jesus say that we should do in order to be humble? He said we should behave like children or behave like servants.

Jesus linked humility to being a child or being a servant. The art of being a child and the art of being a servant must be studied and meditated upon as long as we live on this earth. Pride is the invisible and dangerous enemy of all of us. The more successful you are the more invisible and the more dangerous pride is. Pride is a specialist at bringing people down. The higher you go, the more attractive you are to the spirit of pride.

It is a good thing for us all not to assume that we are humble. It is better to assume that you are proud and fight hard to approach the picture of humility that Jesus taught. Humility is to make yourself a servant. Do you look like a servant? Do you talk like a servant ?

But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. Luke 22: 26

Indeed, many of us who claim to be serving God do not look like servants. We look like lords! We look big, great and pompous! Mercy! May God help us to leave the picture of worldly pride and begin to look the way Jesus wants us to!