Day 28 of 100 Days of 100 Ways To Rule Your World

HAVE A LITTLE HUMILITY, WILL YA?

Everyone, at one point or another in their lives will be humbled by something that puts things in perspective. The birth of a child, a wedding, the death of loved one, seeing your first book go to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list, a snail moving across your driveway, a sun rise, a rain storm, and the list goes on and on. However, there are more times than not that we forget to be humble. We forget what humility is.

Especially, as we start to feel that the world is EXPECTED to stop when we want it to stop. To focus ALL its attention on us. To be at our BECK and CALL 24/7 with no exception. Heaven help the individual who does not answer your text within 5 seconds after hitting the send button or the person who doesn’t answer your call on the first ring. Of course, PERMANENT BANISHMENT to the person who lets your call go to voice mail. To the GULAG for them.

Then again, when it comes to people trying to contact you, you have no problem letting the voice mail pick up the call and you will answer the email when you feel like it, and text message responses: FORGET ABOUT IT! Seriously, you know who you are. I am just as guilty as you are.

There is a solution: HAVE A LITTLE HUMILITY. LEARN IT, KNOW IT, LIVE IT!!!

To have a little humility is to be modest and respectful. Basically, it is to REALISTICALLY address your self-worth. To be grounded and KNOW and UNDERSTAND that you are NOT PERFECT, that NO ONE IS.
I know I AM NOT PERFECT.

After recognizing that fact, it is easy to be humble and stay humble all the days of your life. The trick is to accept the fact that the SUN does NOT RISE or SET because of you. It rises and sets because of ALL OF US.
For those that need a biblical reminder that having little to no humility is a bad thing: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble” (Proverbs 3:34). If you need more references, all you need to do is LOOK AROUND YOU. The world and ALL the Good that exists is because of people that know and live Humility.

Thank you,
David Guerra
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