Humility

The site directors at COCUSA are all reading a book called Humility: True Greatness by C. J. Mahaney. I don't want to know what this says about my lack of humility, but when I got the book, I thought, great, another little feel-good Christian self-help book full of obvious observations. Well, this book is not that at all. I'm only halfway through it, and it's messing up my head.


Read this quote from John Stott-
"Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross. All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousness, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size."


Humility is one of those things that I rarely think about, and that in and of itself is pretty prideful. I spend so much more time focused on myself than I do on Christ. It's not even just being proud, it's the selfishness of focusing on myself no matter what my opinion is. 


Humility is also one of those things that I can't just get overnight. If I want to really change, it's going to take a lot of effort, and honestly, I don't want to do it. But if I'm going to call myself a follower of Christ, I have to. And when I say I have to, I mean that I have to let God do it, because it is so out of my control.