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Daily Devotion on Humility
What is humility? I think the true humility comes from a deepened realization of who we are and what we can and cannot do, which goes all the way back to God's original plan on human race - God enables us and put us in charge of managing His garden and all the creatures within it and commands us to multiply and spread out, but He also said He will be with us always.
This realization of what we can do and cannot do decides our attitudes toward ourselves and toward others, which eventually decides our outward behaviors.
I think the true humility is the realization that I cannot do what God wants me to do alone by myself. I need God walking besides me, giving me direction and guidance. I need his provision and protection, and I also need supports from the community. For example, I can't do anything without the support of my wife. I may have some skills or gifts from God, but I cannot function without someone gives me the environment to function.
Is Paul humble? I would say Yes!, because he knows his place, and his focus is on Jesus, not on himself. At the end of the day, this "I" gradually faded away because this "I" is just a vessel - a mean to carry out, to reflect what God wants us to do, through this vessel, people can see God's foot prints, not my finger prints, Paul did that perfectly.When I read his letters, I see God, but I know Paul is laboring, with his co-workers, but I didn't see Paul's name being lifted up, all his messages point to Jesus, Paul becomes transparent. He understood perfectly that "apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5).