Humility.

A characteristic missing from a “me” culture. A trait often overlooked when climbing the corporate ladder—any ladder going to the top.

And a powerful attribute underestimated for leaders in ministry, coaching, business and more. It’s usually misunderstood in our present world. Even tossed to the side.

But God calls His people to put on, walk in and practice humility in every area of our lives.

Because even becoming Christ-followers starts with humbling ourselves enough to recognize Jesus as Lord and Savior. We’re not our own lord or savior.

So the Bible has much to say about the subject and the promises surrounding it.

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(1.) God Hears Humble Pleas

King Josiah is spared from disaster for those who didn’t keep God’s law. “Because your heart was tender…and you have humbled yourself before me…and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord” (2 Chronicles 34:27).

Jesus told this parable. “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ But I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 18:9-14).

(2.) God Heals Contrite Hearts and Nations

The Lord spoke to Solomon when he finished the house of the Lord. Although God sent pestilence or stopped the rain when His people disobeyed, He gave this promise. “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).

“For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: ‘I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite’” (Isaiah 57:15).

(3.) Humility Births Godly Wisdom

“When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom” (Proverbs 11:2).

“Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way” (Psalm 25:8-9).

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(4.) Salvation Comes Through Humility

“For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation” (Psalm 149:4).

“For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down” (Psalm 18:27).

(5.) We Walk Humbly With God, Boast in Him

“This is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word” (Isaiah 66:2b).

“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8).

God doesn’t choose the worldly wise, noble, or strong. But those foolish and lowly by the world’s standards, “so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.” But we boast in the Lord. (See 1 Corinthians 1:26-30.)

(6.) Relationships Clothed in Humility

“Clothe yourselves…with humility toward one another…. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you” (1 Peter 5:5-6).

“Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves” (Philippians 2:3).

(7.) We Look Like Jesus

“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:3-11).

After Jesus washed the disciples feet, He said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him” (John 13:16).

Characteristic in a Jesus Culture

Humility. A characteristic in a Jesus culture. A trait for climbing the stairway for God’s kingdom purposes. And a powerful attribute for ministry leaders and all of God’s people in service to others and Him.

What areas of life do you need to practice being humble?

*All Scripture ESV, emphasis added to some verses.

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