"HUMILITY IS NOT ABOUT THINKING LESS OF YOURSELF,
BUT ABOUT THINKING OF YOURSELF LESS."
IT'S NOT ABOUT RUNNING YOURSELF DOWN NEGATIVELY,
BUT ABOUT CHOOSING TO POSITIVELY PUT YOURSELF OFF !
HEBREW UNDERSTANDING for "HUMILITY":
6038 - CONDESCENSION, human and subjective (modesty), or divine and objective (clemency):--gentleness, humility, meekness.
HEBREW UNDERSTANDING for "HUMBLE":
1792 - TO CRUMBLE, to bruise, beat to pieces, break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, crush, destroy, humble, oppress, smite.
3665 - TO BEND THE KNEE, to humiliate, vanquish:--bring down (low), into subjection, under, humble (self), subdue.
5869 - AN EYE, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape):--affliction, outward appearance, be content, countenance.
6031 - LOOKING DOWN, or browbeating, to depress, abase self, afflict self, answer, chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble self, hurt, ravish.
6035 - DEPRESSED in mind (gentle) or circumstances (needy, especially saintly):--humble, lowly, meek, poor.
7511 - TO TRAMPLE i.e. prostrate:--humble self, submit self.
7743 - TO SINK, bow down, incline, humble.
SCRIPTURE UNDERSTANDING for "HUMILITY":
DEUTERONOMY 8:2 "And you will remember all the ways which Yahuah your Alahim led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments".
2 CHRONICLES 7:14 "If My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land".
PROVERBS 29:23, 15:33, 18:12, 22:4 "A man's pride will bring him low: but honour will uphold the humble in spirit. The fear of Alahim is the discipline of wisdom, and before esteem is humility. Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before esteem is humility. The reward of humility is the fear of Alahim ... riches, esteem and life".
ISAIAH 57:15 "For the high and lofty One Who inhabits eternity, and whose Name is Holy says, 'I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones'".
MATTHEW 23:12 "And whosoever will exalt himself shall be abased; but he that will humble himself will be exalted".
JAMES 4:6 "But he gives more favour. For He said, 'Alahim resists the proud, but gives favour unto the humble'".
COLOSSIANS 2:18 "Let no one deprive you of the prize, one who takes delight in false humility and worship of messengers, taking his stand on what he has not seen, puffed up by his fleshly mind".
1 PETER 5:5 In the same way, you younger ones, be subject to elders. And gird yourselves with humility toward one another, for “Alahim resists the proud, but gives favour to the humble. So humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of Yahusha, that He may exalt you in due time".
SUMMARY :
Many Scripture translations have opted for the word 'GENTLENESS' (and while this is an important behaviour to have towards others) the actual word is 'HUMILITY' (a fruit of righteousness that we must enforce on ourself first.)
If LOVE is our new command and utmost revelation of His entire WORD IN ACTION, then there is no greater outward expression of Yahusha’s Love for our neighbour than through the movement of our body, our hands, our posture, gestures … the tone of our voice and the words we choose to use … the feeling that comes through our eyes and the way we behave towards others. BUT this GENTLENESS & SOFTNESS is the outward result of the violent battle that must first be fought within. A beating and thrashing and flogging to produce HUMILITY: the putting off of your own rights, feelings and ideas in order to lift another up and make them feel better than they do.
WITHOUT HUMILITY THERE ARE NO OTHER FRUITS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!
IN ESSENCE IT IS A SELF-HUMILIATION AND BROW-BEATING IN ORDER TO PRESS, SQUEEZE AND LITERALLY CHOKE THE VERY LIFE OUT OF OUR OLD PERSONALITY (formed out in the quarries of abuse and violence and heartbreak and pain) … Until we HATE who and what we are soooo much that we don’t want to know it, associate with it or even talk about it (ourself) anymore … for we truly see how much our cruel words and behaviour have destroyed others and CRUSHED THEIR SPIRITS … and so we become abase, afflicted and in submission for the sake of another, so that they may see a better way ... see Yahusha’s way of doing things …. And in a world so wrought with violence and aggressive communication (in both men and women) … for an individual to simply show HUMILITY, GENTLENESS & SOFTNESS in this world …. How utterly powerful is that to feel?
To see? To experience?
HOW WE SUBMIT TO ANOTHER
IS HOW WE SUBMIT TO YAHUSHA!
ARE YOU GETTING IT YET?
YAHUSHA IS NOT PHYSICALLY HERE ON THIS EARTH, AND THE ONLY WAY HIS REIGN SHINES THROUGH IS VIA THE PORTAL (ARK) ON OUR NEW HEARTS. SO THE ONLY WAY ANYONE WILL EXPERIENCE ANYTHING ABOUT HIM (HIS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, HUMILITY) IS BY US SURRENDERING OURSELF OVER TO THE POSSESSION OF HIS SPIRIT …
THESE ATTRIBUTES DON’T COME NATURALLY, THEY’RE ACTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PERFORM WITHOUT A DIVINE HEART OPERATION AND TRANSITION INTO YAHUSHA ALAHIM THROUGH HIS VEIN … THEY ARE OF HIM, FOR HIS REIGN IS NOT OF THIS WORLD AND SO WE MUST CHOOSE TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO THEM !
THIS IS THE COMMANDMENT OF HIS ROYAL LOVE LAW, TO BECOME NOTHING, A HUMBLE SERVANT, WITHOUT REPUTATION AND RIGHTS, TO SUFFER JUST LIKE YAHUSHA DID FOR US … SO WE DO IT FOR OTHERS THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE LIFE … TIME IS SO VERY SHORT, SO NOTHING ELSE IS EVEN WORTH DISCUSSING !!
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