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Humility Isn’t About Us
How humility looks in the Kingdom of God
“The greatest among you must be a servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” (Matthew 23:11–12, NLT)
There is a difference between worldly humility and Kingdom humility.
The world tells us that humility is a “modest or low view of one’s own importance.” This is the definition found in the Oxford Languages. But it is what so many of us believe humility to be in the world. And, it is through this lens that we read the passage above.
Yet, Kingdom humility isn’t about lowering ourselves or thinking of ourselves less. It is about exalting the right person, Jesus. Servants do not exalt other servants, servants exalt their master. In the same way, we are to exalt Jesus.
This is what separates Christian, biblical humility from the definitions the world places today.
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