What Humility Is

Humility is readily confessing our faults and our wrongs, accompanying it with repentance, apology and restitution.

¹⁷ The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit. PSALM 51

Humility is readily bending our will to the will of God, in conformity to the likeness of the Son of Man.

⁴² Father… not My will, but Yours be done. LUKE 22

⁵ Your attitude should be the same as that of the Messiah Y’shua, ⁶ who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, ⁷ but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant [slave], being made in human likeness. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death, even death on the cross. PHILIPPIANS 2

Humility is honoring the freewill of our neighbor, not overriding it. The Son of Man used His power for others, not over others.

⁸ I could be bold and order you what you ought to do, ⁹ yet I appeal to you on the basis of love… ¹⁴ I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do will be spontaneous and not forced. PHILEMON

Humility is setting examples on righteousness, leading no one to do wrong.

¹³ You have been given freedom: not freedom to do wrong, but freedom to love and serve each other. GALATIANS 5 tlb