Humbleness

When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom. (Proverbs 11:2 KJV)

No one wants to be humiliated. Too many people equate “humility” with being humiliated. There is a difference:

Humble - adjective
1.  having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance.
2. of low social, administrative, or political rank

Humble - verb
lower (someone) in dignity or importance
Humility - noun
a modest or low view of one's own importance; humbleness

It’s a very big difference when considering what God requires of mankind:

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Micah 6:8 KJV)

Matthew Henry’s Commentary states:

It is God himself that has shown us what we must do. We need not trouble ourselves to make proposals, the terms are already settled and laid down. He whom we have offended, and to whom we are accountable, has told us upon what conditions he will be reconciled to us.

It really doesn’t matter when another person attempts to humiliate us – it simply shows what type of person they are, not us. What does matter is our being humble while walking with our Lord.

God created man to walk with Him, and He did so in the Garden. That’s not what our adversary has in mind. He desires enmity – the same enmity he has with God. His desire is to make mankind into his image, whereas God created mankind in His own:

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: (Genesis 1:26a KJV)

Do we think we can purchase God’s attention? Does He tell us anywhere that we are to give Him riches? Micah was inspired to write what is basically that same question before answering in verse 8:

Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? (Micah 6:6-7 KJV)

Read Psalm 50 and learn that all there is belongs to God, therefore what can we offer that is not His?

For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. (Psalms 50:10 KJV)

John wrote it more clearly:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:1-3 KJV)

Is it easy to walk humbly? Many find it very difficult, but Jesus didn’t:

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Philippians 2:5-8 KJV)

The majority of us are not asked to face the death of the cross, but we will die. History has proven to us what the Bible states openly:

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27 KJV)

Every religion also had a type of judgment. Most have some commandments, rules, regulations – whatever called – that must be achieved prior to death. How many of them simply require mankind to learn of their deity? How else may we walk with our Lord? How do we seek Him?

But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. (Deuteronomy 4:29 KJV)

There is a time limit:

Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: (Isaiah 55:6 KJV)

What has been your experience in seeking Him?