Honorable Humility

"The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, And before honor is humility." -Proverbs 15:33
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the word humility as "the quality or state of being humble." Jesus's life was nothing more but obedience to the Father. The only way He was able to obey was to completely humble Himself and live a servant's life here on earth by serving His Father and serving us. How much are we willing to be like Jesus and deny ourselves, take up our crosses, and follow Him? Until we are willing to surrender our lives completely to Him are we then able to experience the complete joy found in serving the God of the universe who paid the penalty of our sins by the humility of His son, Jesus Christ.

-Raquel

Humility in the Life of Jesus
by Andrew Murray

It is in this state of mind, in this spirit and disposition, that the redemption of Christ has its virtue and efficacy. It is to bring us to this disposition that we are made partakers of Christ. This is the true self-denial to which our Savior calls us, the acknowledgement that self has nothing good in it, except as an empty vessel for God to fill. Its claim to be or do anything may not for a moment be allowed. It is in this, above and before everything, that the conformity to Jesus consists--the being and doing nothing of ourselves that God may be all in all.
Here we have the nature of true humility. It is because this is not understood or sought after, that our humility is so superficial and weak. We must learn of Jesus, how He is meek and lowly of heart. He teaches us where true humility begins and finds its strength--in the knowledge that it is God who works all in all, that our place is to yield to Him in perfect resignation and dependence, in full consent to be and to do nothing of ourselves. This is the life Christ came to reveal and to impart--a life to God that came through death to sin and self. If we feel that this life is too high for us and beyond our reach, it must all the more urge us to seek it in Him. It is the indwelling Christ who will live this life in us. If we long for it, let us above everything seek the secret of the knowlege of the nature of God, the secret of which every child of God is to be a witness: nothing but a vessel, a channel through which the living God can manifest the riches of His wisdom, power, and goodness. The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.