Hard humility

The word humble is a rare compliment. Who wants to pass up some attention or recognition? Very Very Few. Being humble is hard even to oneself. Jesus said that we need to completely lay down our pride and follow him. That what it means to be humble.

We can only hope to be worthy of that word. It's hard not to find something wrong with what we are good at. If our forte is Physics and feel that we know everything, we sometimes need to learn that even if we heard of gravity before we still need a book by our side to teach it. I think that's what God tries to tells us. That we always need to go back to the bible, to relearn our Christian faith and values.

As I'm studying for my Physics Mid-terms, I spent an hour working on one particular concept with I couldn't understand. Thing is it was something I learnt before as an engineer yet I never took the time to understand it. All that was in my head was the A+ i got 2 years ago proving that I knew it inside out. It took me an hour to realize a horrible truth, I didn't understand it I only memorized it and didn't look back. I ate some familiar humble pie and learnt it the hard way. I was definitely not ready for this.

Humility hits us hard and it never changes its tune. It's a teacher that we must all face. Sometimes it strips into the very core of our principles or helps us adjust the little nuts and bolts that are loose. Either way, it's hard humility. How humble are we? We claim to follow Christ but fail in our time management to honor him the best we can. We claim to do our best but always fall behind and cram in our studies.

In conclusion, we can never be truly humble. Humility is not something we earn or achieve. It's something we just need to listen too and if we listen hard enough build on to maturity as a Christian, Student and a Person