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Andrew Murray defines humility as “a place of entire dependence on God. The first duty and the highest virtue of creature.”

He adds, “Pride (self exaltation) or the loss of this humility is the root of every sin and evil.”

“The fallen angles began to look at themselves with self-complacency  that they were lead to disobedience and were cast to outer darkness.

When the serpent breathed the poison of pride, the desire to be as God, into the heart of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man has now sunk.”

Jesus came to bring humility back to earth and make us partakers of it.

He humbled himself to become a man. Here on earth, ” He humbled himself and became obedient unto death.” Phil 2:8.

Jesus Christ took the place and fulfilled the destiny of man. His salvation is our humility.

There is no amount of good works we can produce to get us right with God.

We have to come to the end of our effects and trust in the redeeming work he did for us.

Without humility, there can be no true abiding in God’s presence or experience His favor and the power of His Spirit. Without humility, there is no abiding faith or love or joy or strength. Humility is the only soil the graces root.

Humility towards men will be the only sufficient proof of our humility before God.

The Lord Jesus Christ washed his desciples feet!

No king has ever washed the feet of his servants, but the Creator, the Lord, the King washed the desciples’ feet.

And Paul wrote in Ephesians 5:21 ” Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”

If we think of others better than ourselves, we are able to submit to others, and this is humility.

Seeing the image of God in each and every person and respecting that is humility.

Understanding we are limited, weak, and small and trusting in all omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient God is humility.

God bless.

Shalom.

Reference: Humility by Andrew Murray.