“Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, but whoever humbles himself will be exalted” – Matthew 23:12

I have often told others, and most importantly told myself, that loving as the Lord taught us is the singularly hardest thing for a Christian to do. But that is because we fail to understand the humility one needs in life to understand, live, and give away love as Jesus did. Bishop Robert Barron notes humility is living out the deepest truth: God is God, and we are not. But Bishop Barron also readily notes that all of this sounds very clear when stated in the abstract, but man, is it hard to live out. In our fallen world, we forget so readily that we are creatures. We start to assume that we are gods, the center of the universe. Fr. Ron Rolheiser writes that we demonstrate humility when we live in the face of the fact that we are both dependent and interdependent. We are not ipsum esse subsistens, self-sufficient Being, God, nor the center of the earth, nor intended to be that center. Humility is centering on the reality that we can do nothing without God and should seek to do everything for the glory of God. It is not about us; it’s about Him.

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