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Unlimited Grace Value – Gracious Humility

        Submit yourselves therefore to God. James 4:7

        How can we better  live a life that embodies  Gracious Humility? What is
        humility? If we focus first on our relationship and behavior towards other people
        instead of first and foremost to God, are we following the biblical primary tenets
        of humility?
        Over the last two years, all the adult Sunday school classes wrestled with these
        questions in a three-week short course. Studying humility from four divergent
        schools of thought yielded interesting insights (practically, academically,
        biblically and theologically). What did we learn?

        Practically, most people simply see humility as submissive interpersonal behavior.
        If you submit to another person’s desire, that’s humility. Really, that’s it? No wonder
        so many are skeptical; submissive behavior goes against our human nature.
        Academics, even after decades of study, don’t agree on a common definition of
        humility, how to measure it, or if it can be taught through interventions, and
        precious few include any spiritual component.
        Biblical characters from Noah, Abraham, Joseph, and Moses, to Ruth, Samuel,
        David,  Esther,  Hosea,  Stephen,  Paul,  and  the  greatest  example—Jesus—all
        embraced God’s will as their own, regardless of their circumstances.
        Setting our own will aside and submitting to our LORD’s will, for His eternal
        purposes and for His glory, that’s Gracious Humility. Easy to say…but…easy to
        live? Not yet!

        Lord, by the power of Your Holy Spirit, enable us to be a reflection of Your
        Gracious Humility as we live our lives for Your eternal purposes, all for Your
        great glory!
                                                       – Steve Klisares












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