Humbleness. Or Wait, I Mean Humility.

Sometimes it is just so easy to feel awesome.
Maybe you play a sport. As soon you hit that three point shot or score that game-winning goal or run that speedy time, we all know what that feeling is right afterwards… “YEAHHHHH I’M THE MAN, I’M SO GOOD!!!”. Or maybe you don’t play a sport. Right after you play that piano or violin piece that you’ve been practicing for the past few months or even finish just a little drawing that you have been working on, maybe that feeling isn’t really outwardly expressed but you’re thinking it on the inside. You feel powerful, you feel accomplished, you just feel awesome. But we have to remember one thing.

We have to remember that it isn’t about us being the ones glorified.

Read Philippians 2: 5-8
Re-read it. Maybe even memorize it. Get this verse stuck in your head so that it is a constant reminder of how we should act at all times.
It is not about us being celebrated but how God gave us these talents to use for His good. God deserves all the praise and celebration, after all He is the one who created us and gave us these abilities. That feeling of power, success, or unstoppable-ness is not how we should think of ourselves. Now I’m not saying that when playing a sport or music piece or etc are we supposed to purposely make a mistake here or there just so that we don’t feel like we are on top of the world. But we should absolutely play each sport, sing each song, or draw each drawing to the very best of our abilitiy in order to glorify God who gives us these things.
Sure, humbling ourselves is very hard to do, but is it not exactly what Jesus did? He humbled himself to be the servant of all others even when he knew he could do these amazing things and was in fact in the very nature of God.

In order for God to truly be glorified, he must be the one whom all the credit is given. Maybe everytime that you do something great take a moment to thank God for that ability. Have a brief prayer. Thank the Lord for talents you’ve been given and give the praise and adoration to Him.

Keep that verse in your brain and always remember that it wasn’t Christ Jesus who considered himself equal to God, so let us act in the same manner and not consider ourselves great but give glory to the true Great One.