In a previous blog entry I was questioning what the word humility meant. I was questioning my own definition of the word in response to reading chapter nineteen of Blue Like Jazz called, Love: How to really love yourself. In this chapter Don talks about being able to receive love from others and talks about the whole idea of loving yourself. When I read this chapter, and whenever I hear or read anything along these lines I start to cringe. I tell myself that it is not right to think this way, and over the years I have kind of trained myself to be humble. However, I read something the other day in the book Purpose Driven Life:
Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others. –Purpose Driven Life
I think this explains what humility is very well.
This chapter in Blue Like Jazz really did strike me quite a bit. It taught me some stuff that will probably change the way I live my life.
Here are some more thoughts from stuff Ive been reading in the book Purpose Driven Life. The last few chapters I have been reading are on fellowship and community.
Real fellowship is so much more than just showing up at services. It is experiencing life together. It includes unselfish loving, honest sharing, practical serving, sacrificial giving, sympathetic comforting, and all the other ‘one another’ commands found in the New Testament. –Purpose Driven Life
Then the author goes on to talk about how size matters in fellowship, which I think is true because, take Plunge for example, I find it hard to have any good fellowship there because it is too big. But if I am with a group of about ten people or less it is much easier to share with people.
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