Humility and Getting Low

Is it difficult or easy for you to be at the center of attention? Are you comfortable in low places of simplicity and humility, or do you require visible honor and places of prominence?  What is humility and how do we pursue humility in our lives?

At the heart of humility is a true understanding of ourselves in light of who God is. Humility is seeing God and others as being greater than ourselves. We should seek humility and to be honored by God above self-honor or the accolades of others.

Jesus speaks of humility in the parable of the wedding feast in Luke 14:7-11, saying, “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” (Luke 14:11, ESV).

We can think too highly of ourselves, exalting ourselves, and be humbled; or we can humble ourselves before God and others, allowing God by his grace and generosity to exalt us in our humility through his humility and goodness to us.

Jesus told the Parable of the Wedding Feast to those who were invited to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, “when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, ‘When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” (Luke 14:7-11, ESV).

In great humility, may we take the lowest and most humblest places in life and find that God exalts us as we humble ourselves before God and others.

A Collect for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, or the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity (Proper 17): “O Lord, we pray that your grace may always precede and follow after us, that we may continually be given to good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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