Intellectual Humility

“Serving the Lord with all humility of mind…Put on therefore, as the elect of God…humbleness of mind…Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus…He humbled himself…”~ Acts 20:19; Col.3:12; Phil.2:5,8.

Some think a person is humble when he or she has a forlorn look about them and stooped shoulders. In reality, these may be caused by a natural temperament and poor posture. 

Humility, contrary to popular teaching, is not thinking little of yourself; it is not thinking of yourself at all. One sure way of losing a humble spirit is attempting to be so. Authentic humility is forgetting self and placing one’s mind on God! (1 Chron. 7:14)

Paul tells us true humility is a thing of the mind. It has to do with the intellect, the brain, our thinking. As the wise man tells us, “As a man thinketh…so is he.” Like the apostle tells us again, “For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.”~ Gal. 6:3

To think only of self is the highest form of pride. To think only of God is the most legitimate form of humility!~ rds

by an Aged Saint

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