Therefore as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.-Colossians 3:12 NIV
There is simply no way for me to obtain and live out my faith unless I am humble.
The biggest importance to understanding humility is to know that God uses broken things. Humility means we take the focus off of ourselves (Philippians 2:3-4).
There are times where I think I am truly humble and times where I know that I am simply not. For instance, since being out of work I have had the opportunity to look within about myself concerning my last job. I fought it at first because we don't want to look inside ourselves and see the ugly we are or may caused and been at fault.
While I still do not know the full purpose for being let go, I have begun to look inside because I want to be a better person and by golly there's some stuff inside of me that's not so good. I mean let's be honest here, we all have some junk. Stuff we want to bury. Things we run away from because it is too ugly to admit to anyone. But that's just it. For us Christians we know that He knows. It's almost laughable how much we try to hide, yet we do it all of us. So as I began to let go of the blame on the company, I decided it was high time to admit things inside of me.
I lost site of the people I was serving.
There it is. It's out there. I said it. And its true. It isn't that I simply cannot handle pressures, high stressful times, or anything like that in the type of job I love. It was that I allowed the organizational paper work aspect get in the way of the joy I felt helping people. Sure there were issues within the company. I was training myself to do the new job, training the other person to do my old job, trying to deal with the stress of the daily in and outs, and this mountain of paperwork that I didn't know how to do. But once I got a handle on it, I was so focused upon the paperwork (paying bills, reconciling them, etc.) I didn't focus on the customers that came in the door. I wasn't as friendly on the phone. I wasn't as patient when they came in to the shop. I was trying to stay afloat and ensuring I was proving to my bosses I could do my new job, I forgot to actually do the real purpose of my job.
You'd think I wanted to crawl in to a hole. But all it did was make me sad because I felt as if I blew it. I've always wanted to do this kind of a job. On top of the fact, it suits my personality to a tee, I love serving people. Talk about #fail. Yet here I am today.
I've learned from it. I recognize it. I've admitted it. I've gone to the Lord and asked for forgiveness and the coolest part is that I am able to move forward. That's right because that's what humility did for me.
When I got to the point of realizing that I did in fact, have a part on my own accord at not putting in the 110% I began to become more and more humble in it. You see because I had too. I could run, bury it, blame the company, and take the focus off of me but isn't that what life is really about? I mean I am not trying to sound pompous here, but if I am here and if I am allowed another breath every day then what I am doing or gaining by not looking inside of myself and trying to become more like Jesus? I simply can't and neither can you.
My motto has always been if is far better to reflect than deflect.
In my quest for understanding and the need to be humbled, I've learned some things. I thought to share them with you too.
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While I still do not know the full purpose for being let go, I have begun to look inside because I want to be a better person and by golly there's some stuff inside of me that's not so good. I mean let's be honest here, we all have some junk. Stuff we want to bury. Things we run away from because it is too ugly to admit to anyone. But that's just it. For us Christians we know that He knows. It's almost laughable how much we try to hide, yet we do it all of us. So as I began to let go of the blame on the company, I decided it was high time to admit things inside of me.
I lost site of the people I was serving.
There it is. It's out there. I said it. And its true. It isn't that I simply cannot handle pressures, high stressful times, or anything like that in the type of job I love. It was that I allowed the organizational paper work aspect get in the way of the joy I felt helping people. Sure there were issues within the company. I was training myself to do the new job, training the other person to do my old job, trying to deal with the stress of the daily in and outs, and this mountain of paperwork that I didn't know how to do. But once I got a handle on it, I was so focused upon the paperwork (paying bills, reconciling them, etc.) I didn't focus on the customers that came in the door. I wasn't as friendly on the phone. I wasn't as patient when they came in to the shop. I was trying to stay afloat and ensuring I was proving to my bosses I could do my new job, I forgot to actually do the real purpose of my job.
You'd think I wanted to crawl in to a hole. But all it did was make me sad because I felt as if I blew it. I've always wanted to do this kind of a job. On top of the fact, it suits my personality to a tee, I love serving people. Talk about #fail. Yet here I am today.
I've learned from it. I recognize it. I've admitted it. I've gone to the Lord and asked for forgiveness and the coolest part is that I am able to move forward. That's right because that's what humility did for me.
When I got to the point of realizing that I did in fact, have a part on my own accord at not putting in the 110% I began to become more and more humble in it. You see because I had too. I could run, bury it, blame the company, and take the focus off of me but isn't that what life is really about? I mean I am not trying to sound pompous here, but if I am here and if I am allowed another breath every day then what I am doing or gaining by not looking inside of myself and trying to become more like Jesus? I simply can't and neither can you.
My motto has always been if is far better to reflect than deflect.
In my quest for understanding and the need to be humbled, I've learned some things. I thought to share them with you too.
- Confess. (Luke 18:9-14)
- Acknowledge. (James 3:2, James 5:16)
- Patiently. (1 Peter 3:8-17)
- Submit. (1 Peter 2:18)
- Be willing to receive feedback, graciously. (Proverbs 10:17, 12:1)
- Accept. (Proverbs 25:6,7)
- Serve others. (Philippians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 4:5, Matthew 23:11)
- Grateful heart. (1 Thessalonians 5:18)
- Speak well. (Ephesians 4:31-32)
- Deal with pride. (Luke 9:23)
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