Devo Fuel: Imitating Christ's Humility
1If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
Humility is not to be confused with false modesty ("I'm no good"). It has to do with a proper estimation of oneself, the stance of the creature before the Creator, utterly dependent and trusting knowing that No One is perfect expect God himself. In this passage the person is well aware both of one's weaknesses and of one's glory (we are in God's image, after all) but makes neither too much nor too little of either. True humility is therefore not self-focused at all but rather, as further defined by Paul, considers others better than yourselves.
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