June 7
Humility and the Surrender of Entitlement
Humility is the foundation where childlike qualities grow. It creates the attitude that fosters trust, wonder, simplicity, honesty, and reliance.
Humility isn't a personality trait or emotional timidness; it's the joyful understanding that we're never meant to live apart from the Father’s love and strength.
Children understand this instinctively. Adults do not.
Somewhere on the journey to adulthood, we believe that maturity means becoming independent—self-sufficient, self-reliant, unneedy, in control, and competent.
But Jesus, who demonstrated perfect maturity, lived in perfect dependence. And when He placed a child beside Him and said, “Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,”
He was teaching us that humility is not thinking less of ourselves — it is returning to our proper size in the Father’s world.
Becoming Childlike Again: Page 40
Humility is the foundation where childlike qualities grow. It creates the attitude that fosters trust, wonder, simplicity, honesty, and reliance.
Humility isn't a personality trait or emotional timidness; it's the joyful understanding that we're never meant to live apart from the Father’s love and strength.
Children understand this instinctively. Adults do not.
Somewhere on the journey to adulthood, we believe that maturity means becoming independent—self-sufficient, self-reliant, unneedy, in control, and competent.
But Jesus, who demonstrated perfect maturity, lived in perfect dependence. And when He placed a child beside Him and said, “Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven,”
He was teaching us that humility is not thinking less of ourselves — it is returning to our proper size in the Father’s world.
Becoming Childlike Again: Page 40