Humility frees us to live lightly and freely

To walk in My Light requires you pay more attention to your failure to love than to the pain you feel when others fail to love you. If you understand relational sin, confession will become a daily exercise. (because we are always sinning and it's easy to sin in this area, put my wants and needs first, not God's or others). When you confess your sins, I will not only forgive the relational failures you see, but I will also clean up everything you have yet to see that keeps you feeling at a distance from Me. Discouragement, when it drives you to Me in broken confession rather than away from Me in wounded pride, brings the realism of humility. You are never without sin. Whether you recognize it or not, there is never a moment when you relate as perfectly as My Son. One day you will! Until then, humility will free you to live in awe of my endless supply of grace. And then the worship that awe inspires, will release more of My Son''s life to flow out of you into others, even into those who have hurt you though never as badly as you have hurt Me.  
excerpt from 66 Love Letters by Larry Crabb   I John 1:10, 2:1-12

St Benedict's Ladder of Humility

"Humility" - the willingness to be known for who we are.

Step #8 - Transformation into the Love of God  Deut 6:5

Step #7 - Speaking Less  Psalms 46:10

Step #6 - Deeply Aware of Being "Chief of All Sinners" Isaiah 64:6

Step #5 - Radical Honesty to Others About Your Weaknesses/Faults James 5:16

Step #4 - Patience to Accept the Difficulty of Others 1 Thess 5:14

Step #3 - Willing to Subject Ourselves to the Direction of Others Heb 13:17

Step #2 - Doing God's Will (Not Your Own or Other People's) 2 Cor 5:9

Step #1 - Fear of God and Mindfulness of Him Eccl 12:13

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Prov 22:4 Humility and the fear of the LORD bring wealth and honor and life. 

Matt 11:29-30 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and 

humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my

burden is light.

Phil 2:3-4 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others 

better than yourselves.  Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but 

also to the interests of others. 

1 Peter 5:5 Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older. All of 

you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, God opposes the 

proud but gives grace to the humble.