110. Humility and entrails
How would you go about praying for humility?
Given that your experience is like mine , that your prayers are answered, one would want to be careful about the way one would phrase such a request.
"Make me humble" is so similar to "humiliate me".
No?
What about " lead me to humility", or "humble me" ?
Or 'show me how to be humble"?
The way I figure it is...there are nicer ways to learn humility than to be humbled.
So I am learning about humility ....(who cheered? )
When I see how much work Mella and Sally-Anne put into their mission of Gospel and pastoral works it humbles me. But it does not humiliate me.
It rather uplifts me. Encourages me.
Whereas humiliation discourages one.
Humiliation seems to involve unnecessary suffering. Or necessary, as the case may be.
So what makes the suffering of humiliation necessary?
I have a Websters Dictionary in front of me. I guess the meanings I am relating to are:
Humble: unpretentious,lowly , meek, submissive, ( to the divine will)
Humiliate: to lower the pride or dignity of; to mortify.
So should we pray for humility without being humiliated?
It is possible, isnt it?
And while we are at it...do you know what 'humble pie ' is?
Its a pie made after the hunt from the entrails of a deer, given to the servants.
('umbles' means the entrails of a deer)
And... a' humble bee ' is the same as a 'bumble bee'
Now, I would rather pray to keep on humming than to keep on bumbling, yes?
Given that your experience is like mine , that your prayers are answered, one would want to be careful about the way one would phrase such a request.
"Make me humble" is so similar to "humiliate me".
No?
What about " lead me to humility", or "humble me" ?
Or 'show me how to be humble"?
The way I figure it is...there are nicer ways to learn humility than to be humbled.
So I am learning about humility ....(who cheered? )
When I see how much work Mella and Sally-Anne put into their mission of Gospel and pastoral works it humbles me. But it does not humiliate me.
It rather uplifts me. Encourages me.
Whereas humiliation discourages one.
Humiliation seems to involve unnecessary suffering. Or necessary, as the case may be.
So what makes the suffering of humiliation necessary?
I have a Websters Dictionary in front of me. I guess the meanings I am relating to are:
Humble: unpretentious,lowly , meek, submissive, ( to the divine will)
Humiliate: to lower the pride or dignity of; to mortify.
So should we pray for humility without being humiliated?
It is possible, isnt it?
And while we are at it...do you know what 'humble pie ' is?
Its a pie made after the hunt from the entrails of a deer, given to the servants.
('umbles' means the entrails of a deer)
And... a' humble bee ' is the same as a 'bumble bee'
Now, I would rather pray to keep on humming than to keep on bumbling, yes?
posted by Ross at 6:50 pm
1 Comments:
To be humble is to recognise our smallness against God's greatness.
To recognise that God's thoughts are higher than our thoughts.
In light of the power and wisdom of God we are weak, foolish, inadequate and dishonest.
We are humbled when we consider that in spite of God's glory He is still concerned and sympathetic for us.
We are humbled when we see evidence of God working in other people.
When we are given privileges and benefits that honour us and we know that its because of God's grace and love, not because we are deserving.
We are humiliated if we stubbornly refuse to acknowledge truth? Truth cannot change, so we will be shown up and shamed by our own dishonesty?
If we are humiliated we have a choice between becoming humble or becoming unyielding and bitter?
Becoming humble is the Getting of Wisdom.
Maybe if we are slow or stubborn we have to be humiliated to become humble?
But far happier to acknowledge the Truth quickly.
("Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him" - while you have the chance) missus r
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