Humility Exemplified

Humility (From Discussions With Sr. Saints at Faith Assembly)


Humility in Relationships with Others

Consider others’ gifts as important as our own.
Easily surrender the best seat or parking place.
Be open and honest.
Build others around us.
Bear one another’s burdens.
Pray for others’ welfare.
Be all things to all people so some might be saved.
Listen carefully to what other’s have to say.
Be a servant to all and not a respecter of persons.
Encourage others to join our group (Bible study etc.).
Pray that our love for other people may increase.
Take an interest in the lives of other people.
Love our neighbors from the heart.
Let others go first.
Pray for those who make themselves our enemies.
In conversation refrain from being an authority on every subject.
Maintain confidentiality; keep secrets rather than carrying tales to impress other people.
Let others praise us instead of us ourselves.
Practice true humility rather than obsequiousness.
Use sincere praise and encouragement to edify rather than flatter.

Humility in my Relationship with God

Praise and worship God every day.
Read and study God’s Word.
Acknowledge our weaknesses and depend upon Him in all things and at all times.
Give God all the glory for our victories.
Worship the Creator and not the created things.
Put God first in everything.

Humility and my Possessions

Share.
Hold on loosely to what God has given us.
Desire nothing that someone else has.
Consider every person on earth more important than our pet.
Boast in the Lord and not in our stuff.
Do not compete with others to have more.
Pray for others’ prosperity.
Give to those in need.
Be content with little; be content with such things as we have.
Provide everything honest in the sight of all people.
Never use people to increase our possessions.
Talk about ideas rather than things.
Value time with people over time simply cultivating things.
Do our jobs as unto God and for his purposes rather than with a view to accumulating wealth.
Downscale and decrease unneeded possessions.
Treasure other people and do not make such a big thing out of "my family, " or my way of doing things.