you know but when i think about humility i you know we melinda's talked about it's
attached to confidence confidence in the lord right but for me i think humility is also
attached to gratitude amen the more grateful we are i think that the natural work of that
in us is a is a righteous humbling you know one of the things i learned when i was studying in israel
that i didn't know until i learned it there in the land was that in jesus's world the
people were choosing their rabbis jesus was very unusual in his world 2000 years ago that he came
on the scene and started choosing his disciples and uh he was calling people unto himself and
you know there's not an analogy that will really fit this but this is michael jordan asking you to
come play basketball with him or tiger wood asking you to come play golf with him and
just that sense of being chosen and when someone so great and so powerful as jesus chooses us calls
us by name i don't know about you ladies but it it produces the exact opposite of arrogance in me
right it produces this gratitude oh my gosh i get to walk with jesus right and he's choosing me and
you know every time i feel gratitude and there's so many different reasons for it i just feel like
it produces this beautiful humbling in me because so i get to bear a name greater than my own
i get to teach a book that i didn't write meaning the bible my whole life is funded
by a spirit greater than my own the holy spirit you know i have nothing to lose and everything
to gain and it doesn't make me cocky that makes me humble right yeah so good you hit that on the nose
christy i think even in a practical way for me it's been surrounding myself with people
who know me well and keep me humble too like they are yeah i have great friends that will speak up
and be like get it together right and i one of my best friends i remember i had done this show
where people were dressing me and as soon as i got dressed someone would kneel on the floor and
i could put my foot on their leg for them to put on my shoes and i was like oh this is the life
people buckle your shoes they do everything for you and so i was traveling with my best friend
and i got dressed and she dropped something and got down on the floor and i immediately put my
foot on her leg and she looked up at me and said i know you didn't just put your foot on me and i was
like oh right that's right okay you are correct i got real used to people doing this for me
thank you for keeping me in the right place keeping me in the right headspace
and i think that has helped me also because i i can go both ways i can go like the way of like no
not me no i'm all right and then i can go put on my shoes yeah you know what i'm saying like i can
go either way and the people that i've surrounded myself with have been so beautiful and helping me
on this journey yeah yeah you really learned to serve like you authenticity is being the same
person right wherever you are and living out of that and so you know i've learned a lot about my
own heart not after an event or after platform all but how am i treating the person that's checking
me out and you know and when i can't have my my id and they're being patient with me and
you know there's so much of that that i think god goes i really could care less about the event
how are you treating your kids how are you treating your spouse how are you treating yourself
in all of those ways and i i think it's such a good test for us like when sometimes when i
feel elevated in some way which if you have four kids you know that says last for a second but
in general if i have a moment i always feel like it's good for me to do something that's just
really normal and no one's gonna see and no one's gonna give a rip about me doing it
but i'm gonna go pick up my dog's poop in the back of the house because it's good for the soul it's
good for me to do the things that that everybody's doing and it's just god and i i know lisa gardens
i like to garden i have my my vegetables and i just like to get my hands dirty and just
re-center a little bit the world loves to elevate the weirdest thing right and you want to say
you know everybody lives a normal life we have a few highlight moments but in general i don't know
anybody who isn't living with some really amazing moments and some really really dumb moments
and that's just life so humility is is almost like not taking yourself so seriously when you
are elevated but also not allowing yourself to go to the depths of the soul when things are
tough and hard and people maybe don't value you and so it's that identity issue at tbn our
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