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community: a group of individuals sharing a common interest or goal.

1. personal sanctification (1-2).
   • humility: knowing one’s own unworthiness.
   • gentleness: keeping one’s power under control as a result of humility.
   • patience: long suffering; only possible through humility…

I have a little problem with this definition of humility. If I abide by this definition, then I must be considered haughty. The reason why I don’t like this definition is because I don’t see how “knowing” my own unworthiness is going to benefit the church. If I acknowledge my unworthiness, how will I be able to know that I am capable of doing His work? Does claiming my unworthiness glorify God? Because God did in fact create me - a beautiful masterpiece, right? Or am I just a piece of artwork created by an amateur? Did I just call God an amateur?… Now Holy Spirit doesn’t tell me that I’m unworthy. Holy Spirit doesn’t want to limit my power and authority in Christ. Because if God is a god of love, then he certainly wouldn’t want to hold back on me. He never did.

I guess I can to some extent understand where the speaker is coming from, but to me, I just don’t agree. Because I’m going to look to the most perfect man as an example - Jesus Christ. He embodied true humility. The act of washing the disciples’ feet is considered to be one of the most humble acts in the Bible, but the thing is, Jesus didn’t wash his disciples feet as a result of Him realizing His unworthiness. 

And if this doesn’t make sense, I always turn to basketball as an example lol. Whose character is better represented? A captain of a championship team acknowledging a fellow teammate who made an awesome assist or a captain who acknowledges that he doesn’t deserve the title? I know that I would want to smack the latter captain because if he isn’t worthy of it, he should just give the title away. We all know he’s good. He’s the captain… and a now a liar.

“Bold analogy,” you may think, but I’m done with being taught things that demean me and my potential. I think it’s funny that this is being preached numerous places. It makes me wonder if people actually read the whole Bible. Because in Ephesians 1:4 it says, “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.” And Ephesians 2:6-7 states, “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.” So what is Paul trying to say? We’re worthy of it all. C’mon, we are raised up with Christ, and we’re not being arrogant. 

“Humility isn’t thinking less of ourselves but thinking of ourselves less.” -The Supernatural Ways of Royalty

***Not in any way trying to bash you, Nathan. You know I love you as a brother. Just something to think about. :)

that post was just my super short notes on the message i heard at OC today, so i see how it might sound weird out of context.  but what i meant by the word “unworthiness” was that we are unworthy without Christ in us.  it is only through Christ that we have our worth, which is being children of God by the price of Jesus Christ, and humility is a reminder that without Christ we would literally be nothing.  that humility makes us depend only on God for everything in our lives, such as doing His work, benefitting the church, etc.  if i thought that i had any worth on my own, i would not be glorifying God for everything in my life, and i would definitely not be depending on Him for anything, either.  only since “God raised us up with Christ” do we have any worth, and so we were unworthy but now are worthy in and through Christ.  i don’t know about you, but this—just knowing that i would be worth utterly nothing had God not placed His worth in me—sure makes me humble before God and before others.  when i said, “knowing one’s own unworthiness,” i, in no way, meant it as simply undermining and discrediting any and every power and potential God has placed in me but rather as acknowledging that without Christ i would not have any of the power and potential that is in me through Christ.  maybe this clarifies my post, or maybe you still think otherwise, haha.  but i think we can agree that God has placed our worth in us, yeah? :)