What is Humility

In 1908 the British writer G. K. Chesterton described the embryo of today's full-grown immature culture called post-modernism. One mark of its "vulgar relativism" (as Michael Novak calls it) is the hijacking of the word "arrogance" to refer to conviction and "humility" to refer to doubt. Chesterton saw it coming:

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason. . . . The new skeptic is so humble that he doubts if he can even learn. . . . There is a real humility typical of our time; but it so happens that it's practically a more poisonous humility than the wildest prostrations of the ascetic. . . . The old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which makes him stop working altogether. . . . We are on the road to producing a race of man too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table. (Orthodoxy [Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1957], pp. 31-32)

We have seen it most recently in the resentment over Christians expressing the conviction that Jewish people (like everyone else) need to believe in Jesus to be saved. The most common response to this conviction is that Christians are arrogant. Modern-day humility would never cry, "Fire!" since the smoke might be vapor from the clothes drier.

If humility is not compliance with the relativism of sophomoric skepticism, what is it? This is important, since the Bible says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble" (1 Peter 5:5), and "Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted" (Luke 14:11). God has told us at least five things about humility.

1. Humility begins with a sense of subordination to God in Christ. "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his master" (Matthew 10:24). "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God" (1 Peter 5:6).

2. Humility does not feel a right to better treatment than Jesus got. "If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign the members of his household!" (Matthew 10:25). Therefore humility does not return evil for evil. It is not life based on its perceived rights. "Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps. . . . While suffering, He uttered no threats, but handed [his cause] over to Him who judges righteously" (1 Peter 2:21-23).

3. Humility asserts truth not to bolster ego with control or with triumphs in debate, but as service to Christ and love to the adversary. "Love rejoices in the truth" (1 Corinthians 13:6). "What I [Jesus] tell you in the darkness, speak in the light. . . . Do not fear" (Matthew 10:27-28). "We do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bond-servants for Jesus' sake" (2 Corinthians 4:5).

4. Humility knows it is dependent on grace for all knowing and believing. "What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?" (1 Corinthians 4:7). "In humility receive the word implanted, which is able to save your souls" (James 1:21).

5. Humility knows it is fallible, and so considers criticism and learns from it; but also knows that God has made provision for human conviction and that he calls us to persuade others. "We see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known" (1 Corinthians 13:12). "A wise man is he who listens to counsel" (Proverbs 12:15). "Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade men" (2 Corinthians 5:11).

Humbled under the mighty hand of God,

Pastor John http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/1999/1140_What_Is_Humility/

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Hi again, (in an amazing short time)

Guess no further... I'm here to discuss about bring relationship(BGR) to the next level(friendship) you might be thinking, isn't it lowering the level of relaitonship if you were to be like friends ? Well, I will explain further in following paragraphs. I guess most of you will agree with me that bgr relationship starts from friendship, so why is there a need to lower it down when you are up there ?

A question to ponder upon. Firstly, bgr is just another title for you to go beyond the usual level of intimacy. Bgr also create addition commitment towards partners, doing things in the name of love. There is a ton more to add on but what I am getting at is that, bgr, isn't a solid fundation to stand on as compared to friends. Friends on the other hand is an amazing group of people that even without the physical intimacy, bond were tied and sharing are as geniune as a white paper can be. Deep thoughts, trouble, worries, blessings were stuff that friends shared among themselves. Good or bad, they will stand by you giving you sound advise for free at all time. Friends will have intentional effort to make time for you if you have something urgent or sad to say, that is what love is actually about. Not doing and pleasing yourself, but self sacrifice for the good of others. Others place before yourself. One that need requires deeper thought to it. Understand and appy it.

Now the challenge of a bgr goes beyond just being physically close to each other, or you may like to add, close from heart to heart. These way, not only bgr is seen as a relationship that is on mere surface, there is a deeper sense of trust and communication level. Bgr can now be viewed as fun, trusting, understanding. Partners must also be sensitive to your lovers sharing. Draw awareness of when to nag and when not to. Advise them with love, compassion and patient. Do not get me wrong, I am not saying these are the MOST important and it is easy to achieve, but rather, its one of the important factors to take note of and continous mindset to strive for the next level of being in a relationship.

I will end it here. Feedback are welcome : )

Hope this helps.

HELLLLLLLOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just to share with you my lousy day.... ( Don't like that la... you know I LOVE to share with you lousy stuff... so bear with it for a while ?)

It ALLLL... started in the morning. Alarm rings, I sit up and switch it off, lay side way on my bolster and WALA... cracking pain in ( the around you have your four pax, not sure wha tthat part is called). So I tried to sit straight.... mentally diagnose the cause of the pain. I thought it was like.. muscle tear.. at the same time felt lousy and stupid to tear a muscle while getting up of bed. So I fought my way to take out the pain relieve spray(for sports) and generously sprayed on my painful area. Prayed hard for relieve... it worked.

During the "relieve period" I managed to get out of bed did the morning necessity and had... ONE pau. That is all I managed to do before the pain kicks in. I took Tramado or tranado or trando (whateva, some painkiller) and again sprayed the muscle relieve, buy enough time for me to decide, change and walk to the private clinic opposite my house. During that period... I was in deep pain... there is no comfortable position for me to temporarily reduce the pain.

Waited for half an hour... and then the information came to light that the doctor is still on her way... Just so you know... it was 10am then.. 9am clinic start to take in patients. Frustrated with the waiting time and the fees I am about to pay after consultation, I canceled my name, and struggle my way to the bus stop, struggle my way to BB poly clinic, wait for... 2hrs + ?

Let me tell you, during that 2 hrs... I got dizzy... with pain... I thought this is the end of me : ) Also thought that it could be not enough food... I bought another distasteful pao and soymilk. Felt better for 2 min before I threw out every thing in the toilet... ANDDDDD.. for your information, I went to the toilet JUST to sit ... no idea why... maybe feel like throwing out... for 4 times ? In that short period... people must thinking this guy must have constipation. Press on the stomach area and go toilet so many time...

Doc recommended me to take blood test .... you could read FB to know what happen during the blood test. Cut the whole story short.... Doc could not pin point the exact error as blood test was clear. So he suspect it was gastric.

So I went home after paying 21 bucks... rest and met my mom for lunch at 3pm, and head to bugis library as I have class at night, but half way there, I turn back and went home... because of the pain killer, that have side effect which cause serious dizzyness... and I bathe and slept for 2 hrs and was home then.


END of story...

Sorry for the broken english...

Dear Readers,

I want to assure you that in my mind, different occasion, on various situation, there are things that I thought of and would like to share with you but failed too, is mainly because of my short term memory. Believe it or not, I think about things ALL the time. Random thoughts will fill my head and result in random topic. Nonetheless, for today, I will talk about make ups. Not the brand of it but the usage of it. I am sure ladies have caught your eyes, be it for you to be a male or female. The kind of makeup they used to make them look different, sometimes totally different.

Just so to reassure you, I am... a STRAIGHT guy. I like female gender and only it.

Frankly speaking, I thought of this topic sometime back and I may have lost the main juice of it so bear with me. I was once again triggered by the thought of ladies with makeup and the different without when I was in class, and my lecture showed us photos of his trip to Japan. Photos containing women with make up. He said that ladies in Japan can easily be prettier than ladies in my class. In my heart I totally disagreed with him. There are girls in my class that are prettier than girls he mention pacifically in his photos. I have actually no idea why did he say the ladies in his photos are pretty. Hand on my heart, the ladies in the photos are NOT pretty. May I repeat for the sake of clarity, the ladies in the photos are NOT, I mean really NOT pretty. What I can say about this is because of different generation defines pretty differently. I'm sure guys in my class will agree with it. So in this short conversation with my lecturer among the class was that, the ladies in Japan, may have undergone plastic surgery to beautify themselves and up on thick make up. The ladies in my class defense was that they were 'natural' without makeup. Which I totally agreed again(But I just listen and not participate in the argument). I got girls in my class that I can say are naturally beautiful. Be it the skin complexion or the structure of the face.

I am also not saying that putting on makeup is BAD.... no, that is not true. Makeup help some ladies to look brighter and more vibrant. Both factors are important for job or even pleasing your partner. Its just that in that point, that argument wasn't fair and was incorrect. I personally prefer natural beauty. I won't mind a little makeup on the eyes to make it look more stunning. Well, I would end by saying... I know that this post hasn't really got the juice. But I apologize, I can't remember anything more.

I decided to stop here for now.

Feel free to fire your comment in the tag box.

Peace out : )

Dear readers,

During this past month of non-blog period, I discover more about myself. Discovery might not always be a bad thing. This part of discovery about life goes like this. My assignments 1 just finished, feeling bored, I went to find some movies I miss out during my busy period. One of the movie I watched was 2012. If you ever did watch it, you will notice heart-warming scene when compassion by the leaders were shown to let the people who bought the ticket to enter the ship, self sacrificial love to complete a impossible mission to save the rest of people; thriller scene when the climax reach its peak with the earth scattering quakes, rushing ocean and fight between life and death. Personally, what caught my attention was the part where love ones die. I was sniffing, but no tears roll down my cheek. That really bother me. For a moment I thought I was so hard hearted that I lost my humanity in feeling. Which was obviously not true. Just that I am stopping myself to cry. This behavior gets in me and I am constraint sub-consciously. I would justify that stopping myself to cry outside is considered reasonable. But being unable to let tears roll down my cheek when I am alone disturbed me. I was sitting at my chair, paused the scene, think for a long while and decided to FORCE myself to really feel it. Finally I did manage to squeezes 2 drops of tears out of my dehydrated eyes. Relieved, feeling a whole lot better, I thank God for it. Being a christian, having ability to feel is a very important sense that ought not to be neglect. It is also a way to love. Showing compassion on needy people, the weak, the poor.

Just glad that I am able to tears.