The authorities found Jesus totally innocent and proclaimed His innocence to the people...and yet they still demanded His death. Mainly because the religious authorities thought they were correct in their judgment against Him. How often do i make the huge mistake of judging someone's motives incorrectly? Too often - forgive me Father.  Often I even judge You; whenever i don't believe what You've told me, promised me... I am just like the religious elite,thinking I'm better than You, or that i KNOW better than You, being self-righteous. Expose that in me, God, every time, so i can step away from my pride and kneel humbly at Your feet.

Humility is ...
...being content when change is impossible.
...knowing what you don't know.
...knowing that you don't know everything.
...living with what you don't like.
...enjoying what you can't explain...the hidden manna moments God gives to us every day.
...discovering what you can't discover...acknowledging the gap between you and God...He is infinite and we are finite...we will never fully understand His ways because His ways are not our ways...they are higher.
...accepting our limitations.
...knowing God is God and I am not Him.

excerpt from Living Waters article by David Jeremiah.

Falling Upward

Humility is the path of the Cross...first Jesus experience suffering and death, then resurrection and glorification. This is the way of life and peace...for us to first embrace death of our false self so that our true self can resurrection and we can live in the glory God originally meant for us, reflecting Him to our world. The way up is down..falling upwards so to speak... He must increase and I must decrease.  John 3:30

Pride is independence...humility is dependence on God.
Pride is an unwillingness to wait for God to act in His own time and in His own way.
Pride rushes in to take matters into its own hands when it appears that God is not working fast enough.
Pride is impatience.
Pride is wanting to be in control of our situations.

The Cross represents the death of all my own plans, all my own ideas, my own desires, my own hopes and dreams. It is most of all the absolute death of my own will. This is true humility. Humility is associated only with the Cross.

Philippians 2:8 He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross...doing the will of God who sent Him. John 4:34

One of the biggest traps for Christians is a good idea that is not God's mind...a good strategy that is not His... a well-conceived plan that is not His will for us. First we must die to our self-will in order to clearly hear God's will.

Humility is trusting God to do the right thing at the right time in the right way. It is trusting Him to use you in the right way at the right time.

Humility is patiently waiting on the Lord in a spirit of expectant faith.  God says, "You won't be sorry if you do it My way. Patience is doing a work in you. You are becoming strong by waiting in faith. Let patience do its perfect work in you. "

Colossians 1:10-11 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience.

Humility is believing that God's intentions for you are deeply good, all the time.

Excerpt from The Awful Sin of Pride, David Wilkerson, Living Water Magazine Vol 19 #2 
with a few thoughts of my own interspersed.

I need You God....

Humility is the capacity first to submit yourself to God, then to submit yourself to the difficult circumstances of life.  A step to humility is: I can't handle this. This is too much for me. God I need You. Father I need your grace. I need your forgiveness. I need to learn through this. It's not easy for me... Humility is our realization of our insignificance apart from God.
from an article by James MacDonald

Pride is.....

Pride is when I try to do what only God can do...to think i am so capable that i can fix anything or anyone, so wise i can understand anything and everything. Pride is expressed when i try to go beyond the limitations God has given me.