February 2024 - Humility

Humility comes in one of two ways ...

Either we treasure it as the gift it is and operate in it, or we must come to the end of ourselves, the end of our opinions, and be humbled. Either way, we are all called to a life of humility.

So, we mustn't put too much weight on our own opinions, as that can lead to pride. This can be hard as we often speak from our experience.

This is also why we tend to believe our opinion carries a lot more weight than it does, and by sharing it, we are truly helping. Opinions may be helpful at times, but opinions may also be hurtful at times.

So, we must be humble enough to recognize when we’ve overstepped - when we're in the wrong. In being wrong, it puts us in a place of humility so that we can learn something from someone else.

Because we are not the person before us, and their journey is not our journey. So, we have to be okay with putting our own opinions aside so that we can truly focus on the other person.

Having a proper relationship with our own opinion allows us to receive from others what they are carrying - even people we may not like. In fact, it's the people that we have the hardest time with that we can learn from the most.

They will challenge us in ways that no one else will and they will build in us a heart of humility. And we can't learn anything by thinking we know everything, which is why having a right relationship with our own opinion will keep us in a place of humility!