Seeking Humility
Biblical synonyms for pride include conceit, superiority, insolence, arrogance, boasting, contempt, wrongdoing and self-centeredness.
Biblical synonyms for pride include conceit, superiority, insolence, arrogance, boasting, contempt, wrongdoing and self-centeredness.
True leadership isn’t about doing everything well. Instead, it’s about focusing on doing a few things exceptionally well.
Every day, we’re handed a fresh, finite opportunity to step up, level up, and live our lives to the fullest. And that’s the weight we feel, isn’t it? The pressure to not waste what we’ve been given.
Pride is dangerous for a leader, so how do you reduce your potential of being prideful?
7 characteristics of pastors who demonstrate humility
As puny and flawed as we are, the fact that we accomplish a few things and then decide we can live without God reveals Pride in your blind spot and is all the proof anyone should ever need of our precarious condition in this universe.
We think humility in leadership is an invitation for people to walk all over us, for endless suffering, to be left out. Yet the Bible doesn’t present that at all.
Humility isn’t a skill, it’s a disposition of the heart, it’s a way of life. Who are you following? It’s not something you get better at, it’s a virtue you embrace.
What we need is to be so gripped by Jesus and His grace that we truly forget about ourselves. Why would we want to think about ourselves, the lesser, when we can think about Him, the infinitely greater?
Be brave enough to seek humility. Be strong enough to seek humility. Be courageous enough to seek humility, and we will grow. It increases our sense of community, and none of us can do this on our own.