{"id":3267,"date":"2011-06-21T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2011-11-18T21:39:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T05:39:09","slug":"caution-humility-%e2%80%93-bumpy-road-ahead-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2011\/06\/21\/caution-humility-%e2%80%93-bumpy-road-ahead-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Caution: Humility \u2013 Bumpy Road Ahead (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Elder Mike Chon<\/em><\/p>\n

There are many ways to decrease pride and cultivate humility in our lives. I want to highlight a\u00a0few that may help in cultivating humility. Of course this is a lifelong pursuit since pride is\u00a0something that we will have to continue to battle until God calls us home.<\/p>\n

1) Love one another (Matt. 22:39; Phil. 2:3-4)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Loving someone else first <\/em>means that you love yourself at least second<\/em>. Find ways to encourage others\u00a0by using your words, writing a letter, praying for them, and\/or meeting their needs. If you know\u00a0of a particular need someone has, use your time and resources to meet those needs. When\u00a0we begin looking for others to love and take care of, the less time and energy we will use to\u00a0think about our own wants and desires that we think we deserve. We will usually find ourselves\u00a0in situations that are not convenient to our schedules or lives when we put others before\u00a0ourselves, love is not about convenience. What better way to cultivate humility than to trust\u00a0and love our Sovereign God and at the same time loving others.<\/p>\n

2) Confess sins to each other (James 5:16)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our sins bring us back to the cross of Jesus Christ. It is a great reminder of our frailty and\u00a0propensity to fail. To be able to confess those failures to each other requires us to humble\u00a0ourselves and be willing to admit to someone else our weaknesses. One of the signs of a prideful\u00a0heart is the unwillingness to admit to any wrongdoing. Confessing our sins to each other will\u00a0help our hearts from becoming prideful as well not allowing us to become familiar with sin.<\/p>\n

3) Evangelize<\/strong><\/p>\n

Evangelism is helpful in cultivating humility by keeping us totally and completely dependent\u00a0upon our Lord. When we share the gospel with someone we realize that it is the work of God\u00a0that helps the person understand and accept what they hear. We are also dependent upon\u00a0our Lord in what we say and helping us answer questions that those we are evangelizing to\u00a0may have. If you want to cultivate humility by being completely dependent on our Lord, go\u00a0evangelize.<\/p>\n

4) Follow Christ, not others (Luke 9:23)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following Christ means death to ourselves. We are called to deny ourselves and take up the\u00a0cross and follow Him. When we start to follow man or someone in particular, we lower that\u00a0calling to a person. We begin to compare ourselves to others and our lives begin to look better\u00a0than they really are. Following Christ humbles us because it causes us to deny our desires, our\u00a0dreams, our goals and replaces them with Christ\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The pursuit of humility is not something that comes easily, but hopefully as believers we see\u00a0the reason why it is so important that we never grow weary in pursuing humility in our lives. May we\u00a0continue to decrease so that Christ would increase in our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Elder Mike Chon There are many ways to decrease pride and cultivate humility in our lives. I want to highlight a\u00a0few that may help in cultivating humility. Of course this is a lifelong pursuit since pride is\u00a0something that we will have to continue to battle until God calls us home. 1) Love one another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elders-corner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3742,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}