Dropping Arrogance And Sprouting Humility

Hello friends and welcome to Blogtober. This year’s concept is an autumnal metaphor that I came up with: In fall, trees drop dry, decaying leaves that are not beneficial to the tree. In the same manner, uswhobelieve, can drop things (at the feet of Jesus) that are not beneficial. And, just as the trees sprout new leaves, we can replace our ‘dead leaves’ with good.

Our ‘dead leaf’ that we can drop today is: Arrogance.

Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the Lord is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.

1 Samuel 2:3

We should skip being boastful and full of pride, and instead, we must be diligent for God and measure ourselves rationally.

For by the grace given me I say to everyone of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgement, in accordance with faith God has distributed to each of you.

Romans 12:3

I talked about this verse in our Submission Series, so I will just retouch on what I said then, since it is still pretty fresh in my mind: When we humble ourselves and submit to God, He will exalt us. Humility is never an easy task, but knowing our place and God's place, makes it easier. He is above all and we, well, we are microscope worthy in comparison. That doesn’t mean that we aren’t important though! We have God’s breath in our lungs, so we are worthy of living and having joy.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

Philippians 2:3

When we have sober judgement of ourselves, it makes it easier to value others. After all, no one is above anyone else in this world, not in God’s eyes. So, walking around with arrogance isn’t Christ-like. I mean Jesus was God in the flesh, yet not an arrogant word was uttered from His mouth. If it is our goal to be like Christ, then arrogance is just another hinderance, so we should toss it out.

Our ‘leaf’ of arrogance has fallen away and now we can sprout humility.