December 14

“All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, ”God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." — 1 Pet 5:5

What is humility? It is not thinking lowly of one’s self. It is not a voluntary humbling of one’s self for any particular purpose. It is the spirit which is ready always to use its best powers and its richest gifts–in the lowliest service of love. Love is at the heart of it. When we truly love others–we are interested in them, and will do them any service they need, however hard or costly or lowly it may be, not considering ourselves too fine to serve them, nor any possession of ours too good to be used in their behalf.

It is not the lowly place in which one lives and works which makes one humble. One may be proud, and move in a very obscure sphere. Humility is in the spirit, not in the station.