Humility - the Meat 2

I know that I still have to defend my position that Humility is the greatest virtue, but I want to move on. I think that the next several entries will act a support.

My definition of humility: accepting who I am in light of the cross.

Why that definition? I stole much of my definition from Charles H. Spurgeon. He said that “Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.” In a more foksy way, Thomas Merton says that, “Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real”

While the Bible does not define humility, it consistently links it to the fear of the Lord. So what that says is that God is in control and I am not. It says that I have a reason to fear the wrath of God - so much so that unless the Son of God intervened, I would experience that wrath.

Humility dictates that I am just not that important, I am not indispensable, I am not as good as my pride would lead me to believe.

And that leaves me more dependent on my Savior.