okay try to set it up before I started
to start it earlier couldn't do it so
I'm gonna try it like this and we'll see
how it goes hi my name's Bellamy Schmitz
and this is essentially cents so
humility interesting concept actually
not just concept it's a virtue did you
know that humility wasn't actually
considered a virtue until Jesus is his
time and texture Jesus the Word of God
son of God he made humility into a
virtue now in the ancient world of
course they had a concept of humility
they knew what it was to to UM to be
honest but Christ elevates this I mean
it's even in st. Paul's letter to the
Philippians he said Christ though in the
form of God did not deem equality with
God something to be grasped that but he
emptied himself taking the form of a
slave and exist and Paul goes on to say
or he says earlier this you have the
same mind as Christ this mine of
humility now we don't necessarily in our
modern world understand humility for a
number of reasons one is we
misunderstand the definition of humility
we think sometimes or maybe you don't
but a lot of people around us think that
humility is more like self-contempt you
know know have more self-confidence you
need to believe in yourself humility is
not thinking tempt for yourself in fact
self-contempt is a vice whereas humility
is a virtue like to to to despise
yourself or to think less of yourself
than you actually are that is living a
lie that's believing a lie and humility
true humility is living in the truth
because that's simply what humility is
right humility is the willingness to
acknowledge tell and live the truth of
you what I mean by that is I
acknowledged my weaknesses I acknowledge
my strengths I acknowledge my failures I
acknowledge my successes I am aware of
the truth now here's an interesting
thing the more humble we are necessarily
the more truthful we are because
humility is going to be an accurate
assessment of my gifts my strengths my
weaknesses and my wounds it's gonna be
very very important but this is one of
the reasons why we
don't get humility in our day and age
because we most often associate our
strengths or that our greatest strength
or our the source of our dignity in what
we do right they just go with me on this
we often associate who we are we can be
proud of about ourselves with our
accomplishments with our abilities with
our wins as we define ourselves by our
those surface gifts like we define
ourselves by those surface wins or some
people can be tempted to define
themselves by their surface wounds or
their surface weaknesses neither of
those are accurate our wins might be
good our strengths might be good our
gifts might be good right but that's not
the source of our dignity that's not the
source even of our goodness this is one
of the reasons why the world currently
doesn't understand humility because
again humility being a willingness to
tell the accurate truth and most
accurate truth about ourselves is well
then I look at myself and think to see
all the wheat wounds I see all the
failings I see all where I need people
and I think well then I'm not very good
Christianity says actually here's the
truth your goodness comes from God your
goodness comes from the fact that you've
been made in God's the image and
likeness of God even more so as a
Christian you've been made into a child
of God through Jesus Christ by the power
of the Holy Spirit and the important
thing your goodness wasn't given to you
by any of the human being therefore it
cannot be taken away from you by any
other human being that your goodness
wasn't earned by anything you did
therefore it can't be lost by anything
you do or don't do that your goodness
resides in your identity the depth of
actually who you are as a human being
which is most principally someone made
in God's image or likeness someone who's
been claimed as God's son or daughter to
root your goodness in anything else
makes that goodness fragile that's what
people don't understand humility because
if it comes from anything else just like
well this is Who I am
that's why there's this song in the
musical at the great the greatest
showmen which you might like you might
actually love it I know a lot of people
really really like it the song is called
this is me it's sung by the
woman in the PT Barnum's deal and the
whole thing is you know this is I'm
brave this is proof this is who moment
to be this is me and it's great this
kind of triumphant anthem of like I may
be looked down upon by other people I'm
okay with that because I am me and who I
am is enough there's a line that says
you know we are glorious and I say yeah
it okay I agree with that but I'm gonna
ask you the question where does that
glory come from just because like you
happen to exist without God you're
simply uh I mean no offense but you're
just a collection of cells just
collection of molecules just collection
of atoms and subatomic particles
that's not very glorious regardless of
whether you're a PT Barnum who runs the
whole thing or the person who sweeps up
you know picks up the droppings of the
elephants why are you glorious that's my
question why are you glorious where does
that come from
number two she says that I know that I
deserve your love there's nothing I'm
not worthy of like oh really oh why
again why where does that come from
because that you're you nice that's
really really nice without God you being
you is again just a cosmic accident but
you being you having been made in the
image and likeness of God means oh
you're not simply a cosmic accident
you've been created on purpose for a
purpose for glory to be able to give Him
glory forever
so again deserve your love from you know
worth your love nothing I don't I'm not
deserving of well not just as a
collection of atoms maybe as a son or
daughter of God here's the problem is
when our world eliminates God from the
equation then all of our goodness rests
on essentially nothing a rests on well
did I do good things or did I do bad
things if I did good things I'm good did
bad things bad but we all know ourselves
we know that there are some good things
people see there's a lot of bad things
people don't see so people might say
you're good and you know deep down but I
don't I'm not I choose bad things but if
your goodness if your
dignity doesn't come from what you've
done but comes from what you are made a
guys image a child of God and again that
can't be lost because it doesn't come
from anything you've done and it can't
be taken because it didn't come from
anyone it's only then that we can be
truly humble here's the last thing I
think our crisis and humility as well
comes from two things as well I think
comes from an overestimation of
ourselves and over preoccupation with
ourselves over estimation of ourselves
is like I mean the truth the matter is
no one on this planet is who they could
have been like no one no matter even
like Bill Gates even people who've
accomplished great things no one on this
planet has actually used all of the
gifts that they've been given to the
maximum benefit of humanity or even of
themselves we have this overestimation
but I did one thing with my gift well
done but we have this over estimation of
ourselves and an over preoccupation with
ourselves how am i doing how am i doing
how am i doing that's where I love CS
Lewis my buddy Jack Jack says humility
is not thinking less of yourself again
it's not that self-contempt humility is
not thinking less of yourselves
it's thinking of yourself less it's like
not putting yourself in the center of
the universe or even the center of your
own private universe it's recognizing
there's God who's better than me God was
bigger than me other people were better
than me and that's okay
because he made me he knows me he loves
me and that's all I mean that's the
truth I'm gonna move forward that's in
some ways real humility
anyways hope that made sense if it
didn't well record rerecord the video
then for all of us here doesn't presents
my name is father Mike god bless
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