Steps toward humility
Yesterday's post was a long one, so I thought today's would best be shorter. Today I was thinking about the pursuit of humility. It's difficult to arrive at humility, since as soon as I think I reach it, I get proud of having reached it. And that just shows me how far away from true humility I really am. So all I can do is keep pursuing.
And the life of discipleship is one that requires this pursuit, since a key part of discipleship is repentance. And repentance is difficult if we don't acknowledge our great tendency towards pride.
So, to keep it short, and to pack much wisdom into a little nugget, takes someone much smarter than myself. So I give you C.S. Lewis from his fantastic book, Mere Christianity:
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realise that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.
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