p. 3 | Self-sufficient Humility

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 21, 1906

Self-sufficient Humility

THERE is no more offensive way of proclaiming one's self “rich, and increased with goods” than by those loud professions of humility under cover of which one may climb upon the judgment-seat and pronounce sentence upon all others, or may set himself above all others and assume to dictate their course. Genuine humility does not advertise itself upon the housetops. There is in it too much of that love which “vaunteth not itself” to permit it to make a vain show of itself. True humility is revealed in conduct rather than in profession. Those who really esteem others better than themselves do not make an ostentatious display of the fact. “Truly great men are invariably modest. Humility is a grace which sits naturally upon them as a garment.” “Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.” “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”