When I look back on this year there are lot of emotions. When I think of the overall thing God has been teaching me this year, through all the different struggles and emotions, I do believe it all comes down to one word:
HUMILITY.
Ive never considered myself a prideful person, but pride will effect every person in one way or another, at one stage or another! To be a disciple of Jesus Christ, one MUST learn to be humble. We need to learn that no matter what position we are in, or how much life we have lived and experience we have, we will never be know-it-alls. We always have room to grow, and room to learn. We will never stop learning, and even if we think we don’t have this attitude or these thoughts…..one day i believe we will all find out deep down pride was sitting there all along, and these thoughts have been imbedded somehow. We will continue to realize daily that we are not the one’s in control. We often are made to wait. We often are made to be uncomfortable. We often are made to be long-suffering….amongst many other things. And this is all for our own growth of character, and for a deeper dependence on Christ.
We must continually realize that God is greater than everything that is us, and everything that affects us. Our fears, our desires, our hearts, our thoughts, our failures, our mistakes, our past, our future, our emotions, our knowledge, our capacity to understand, our gifts and talents, our relationships, our sins…and life changes (there are a lot of those!)
We must learn to be humble in all of these things…and know that God is leading us through it all.
The journey to humility may not be an easy or enjoyable one, but it is one that makes us more like Jesus and brings godliness to our character!
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:1-5
