Humility is a value or simply a word that is overused. We sometimes use it for affirmation; criteria of a character. But i think humility is an innate thing. Maybe it’s true that people will grow and change, to become more humble. But my stand is still natural.
Maybe i’m judgemental, but i believe there is such thing as fake humility. Right now, humility this word to me has different degrees. 1st – Innate Humility. It means somehow God put this true humility in someone. Whether the person knows it or not, it doesn’t matter. And this degree of humility is rare and precious. Nothing you do can improve this magnitude of humility, neither could you deplete it. It is that precious.
2nd - Moulded Humility. I believe that along the journey of life, things happen to mould you. But whether your response to these things mould you to become more humble or less humble, only God knows. Maybe one is not very humble at the start, but at the end of the day, he or she may have gained some humility from experiences or was influenced to learn to be more humble than before. Maybe one can be humble already right from the start (take note that this is not innate humility, this is seeing humility in others and didn’t have much pride to begin with). But at the end of the day, that person’s humility may be depleted due to change of heart and be influenced by evil thoughts. See the difference between Moulded Humility and Innate Humility? One can be eroded, while the other can’t.
3rd – Fake Humility. The reason why it’s fake is quite linked to the 1st and the 2nd. Just like the 2nd one, he or she can watch someone being humble at the side before really practicing humility (yeah you can imagine that person being very young). But unlike the 1st one, he or she does not have that natural instinct to be humble. Yet above 2nd and 1st, that person chose to not instill real humility into himself or herself. And this kind of humility doesn’t last. And definitely, this kind of humility doesn’t come from God and isn’t the kind of humility that He wants us to have. Some of us may fall into this intangible trap.
The issue here is not to start observing people and start differentiating them into categories, because sometimes you may have Fake Humility which you yourself don’t know. I once doubted myself about this, not that i have an answer now, but i guess like many things, only you go to Heaven then can ask God. But right now, i guess many of us fall in the 2nd type. I mean even if you are the 1st type, you won’t even know. So why not just give the benefit of the doubt and assume that you still have room to grow to be more humble? No harm “growing” anyway.
Humility is a tricky thing. And to learn and grow, the only way and the quickest way (i believe) is when God humbled you Himself. I mean everyone has some pride, so humans can’t humble humans.
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself , but thinking of yourself less.” - just like this quote, i believe that when you acknowledge this and start practicing humility, regardless of whether God created you already humble or not, at the end of the day, you will be humbled by Him.
I just want to encourage those who annoint people for their character, live life with these people, maybe you won’t get to know their true humility, but just never ever hear it from others. If you have to, go to the ground level to live life with these people, then will you not be blinded by mere “up-value” affirmations.
]! Then i’ll be running eveyday, sometimes twice a day. For Grad Night, for my health, for my future LOL. If Ris Low can lose 8kg within 2 weeks just by eating an apple a day, i can lose at least 4 kg within 2 weeks just by exercising and eating healthily, right? =)
Maisie
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