Your life is full of moments in which you find something significant that you feel will make it better. As a child, you wished for that special gift. It could have been that first bicycle, your first video game system, or some other gift. You waited anxiously for it. Once you received it, your joy went through the ceiling. After some time passed, that enthusiasm waned as well. All throughout life, when you receive what is hoped for and the passage of time, the treasure you wanted becomes a common commodity.
What is true of material things, is also true of spiritual things, and, especially, of humility. You want so bad to be a humble person, but that character trait alludes you as water seeps through your hands as you try and hold it. One unknown sage, puts it this way: “Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you’ve got it, you’ve lost it.” Think about that statement for a few seconds. Yes, the very moment you think you are humble, well, at that moment you are no longer humble.
If that is true, then how do you become a humble person? How can you be humble? Where or to whom can you look to learn that Christian virtue? Or, is it something that is humanly unattainable?
Jesus Christ makes only one statement in all of the Scriptures to describe Himself. It is found in Matthew 11:29, where He says of Himself: “…I am gentle and humble of heart…”. Yes, Jesus describes Himself as being a “humble” person. Therefore, if you want to be a humble person, just be more like Jesus.
To find humility without losing it, is easy. Just live your life the way Jesus lived His life. Let Jesus be your model for daily handling of all of life’s issue’s. Don’t focus your attention on being humble. It will come as you daily live with Jesus as your model. Humility is a by-product of being Christ-like!
Something that has been constantly taught to me as I grew up is that if you don’t humble yourself, God Himself will humble you. For example, the story of Nebuchadnezzar’s pride (Daniel 4). It’s one of my favorites.