Saturday, March 23, 2013

AAEVS - Putting Together a Christ-centered Community (Part 5)


Humility/Selflessness/Meekness

If we want to excel in God’s Kingdom, we must mortify the very desire that He hates and that is Pride.

Pride distracts us from God’s glory and thus robs us of our joy and effectiveness. This is why we must commit ourselves to humility in the sight of God. Humility does not mean that we degrade our worth as a human being made in the image of God, but rather it means that we accept that God is the only being that deserves the full attention and admiration of His creatures; all we have, even what we think is from our own doing, is a gift from God. 

This means that we forfeit the “right” to think only about ourselves and open ourselves up to God and what He is doing all around us as well as through us. “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” Paul said in Philippians 2:3-4. This does not mean that we neglect ourselves in service to others, but it means that our delight as John Piper put it, to use his quote again, “joyfully meets the needs of others.” 

Thursday, March 7, 2013

The Problem With Low Self-Esteem

I noticed this article tonight; It is encouraging and very timely as I had just have typed the first sentences in the section on humility. This is from the Rebelution website.

The Link:

The Problem With Low Self-Esteem