Humility as a sign of greatness.

 We often witness criticism of others. Among the many complaints are the following: Why is he bothering with it when he doesn’t have it? Why start something when you don’t have any skills for it? I’m surprised he did it because he has no prerequisites for it… We come across such and sim experiences every day. We can imagine how it will turn out for someone who thinks and is not self-critical enough.

Let us recall two events from the Gospel. And indeed about a king who, before starting a war, sits down at the table with his advisers to consider and recalculate whether they are actually wise and strong enough to embark on that war. If they see a superior force against them, they humble themselves, send messengers, and s asking for peace terms. In the second case, we are talking about a tower builder who, before starting to build, sits down and adds up his savings and co, compares them to the expenses that await him. When he finds that they would not be enough for him to finish the building, he does not start, lest they laugh at him afterward: This one began to build but was unable to complete. What does this have to do with humility? After all, a person must admit his helplessness and inability, where his strength and abilities are insufficient. In the Gospel, we see that even some apostles did not like humility. We can see it from their behavior,

Lord Jesus uses the rapid turn of events in the Gospel to lead the apostles to self-criticism, so they do not overthink and ooverthinkeasily pay for it. He does not want to ridicule them directly but leads them to do so through the questions he asks them. They are too uncritical, and therefore the Lord Jesus leaves them in their imaginations for the time being until they mature enough to understand such things differently. The apostles answered everything, regardless of whether they were human or could do so. Where did they get so much audacity? Such self-confidence is not a sound business card for a person. Therefore, they needed to get rid of it as well. Indeed, after all that, they embraced their unhealthy behavior. They sobered up, and suddenly, everything was clear to them.

The whole upbringing of the Lord Jesus consisted of putting an image of an ideal in front of his listeners. Even at this moment, he shows a picture of his life. He came, humbled himself, took upon himself the nature of a servant, renounced his equality with God, and was considered an ordinary man. He did not come to be served by man but to help everyone himself. We know he not only said it but also did it at every step. For this, God exalted him and gave him a name above all other words, so that…

In their little pride, even the angels refused to pay homage to God, and we know where they went. Perhaps they thought it was not worthy of them, that they were more capable of other things. The teaching of the Lord Jesus aims at a person learning to know the pure truth about himself, penetrate his essence and discover who and what I am. Toisnow his soul’s stats and abilities, to learn to assess everything self-criticallyThen his life will be filled with truth, and that is the image of true humility. Humility is the truth. At the same time, I think about who I am and what I am, what I can do, and admit to myself what I am not good at. So I don’t think more or less, just what common sense tells me. We live in a time when I feel that all those artificial differences between people have passed and ended. The recent past has made them feel strongly about the worst off. I think that anyone today who would assume that his family has a better background than the other person, or that he perhaps lives in better conditions and has higher schools than others, would put himself in a ridiculous light in front of everyone with such behavior.

So let’s think about ourselves: Am I not one of those people? Maybe we are unaware of it, but we let you allow how highly we think of ourselves. We want to be right everywhere. We are not critical enough to admit our mistakes. We have to have a significant say, and at the same time w,e keep saying that others recognize us, and we often don’t even allow them to breathe contentedly. We must have the last word, and we will tell ourselves that there is no one more present than us… Let’s not be surprised that then people will not like us; they will be afraid of us, avoid us, and even if not directly, as they did today’s apostles, but they will surely condemn us behind our backs and quite rightly so because we are not doing well.

Let’s not think about ourselves and our strengths and not rely on anything. The Lord Jesus gives us as a model a child who does not know such differences. It looks at everyone with the eyes of a friend. For him, making distinctions is foreign, especially where they don’t have to be made because there is no serious reason for it. We, Christians, as children of the same grandparents, should think and feel this way. In God, we have become God’s children, and in Jesus Christ, brothers and sisters to each other.

Therefore, we live modestly and unobtrusively with the only desire for God. Take a look at the life of Saint Teresa of Jesus, and you will find out what you are still missing! 

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