“And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.”
Matthew 23:12
“Look at me. Aren’t I beautiful?” I smiled as I watched my little five-year-old friend waltz around the room in her fru-frued dress and frilly matching socks. I assured her that yes, she was beautiful–always, not just in her new outfit.
We’ve all made them. The look at me statements. Some are more obvious and blatant than others, but all of us seek approval and all of us want praise. Fishing for compliments may be cute when we’re five, but not when we’re twenty-five or fifty-five. God calls us to humility. He wants us to find our wholeness, our self-worth in Him. He calls us to labor oftentimes unnoticed and unrewarded. He calls us to seek humility—not so we can be praised. We are simply to seek humility. Period.
What does humility look like? It’s best described by exploring its opposites: pride, conceit, self-absorption, selfishness, stingyness, one-up-manship. We know these things.
Someone has comically said, ‘Humility is like underwear. We need it, but it’s shameful if we flaunt it.”
So how can we grow in humility? Determine that it’s not’s about us. Live like it’s all about Him. And let God be the initiator of the compliment, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”
Sarah Fletcher
Tennessee
 PRAY TOGETHER: Our new WNAC president, Rebecca Pugh, should know we are praying for her daily.
