Humble

How hard it is to be humble. Oh the great reward for finding the ways to be humble.

All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." I Peter 5:5

Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them saying: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:1-3

I wonder if we realize that we are poor in spirit. All too often we do not want to be poor in spirit. We work hard to be "better than" and to hide behind our "good deeds." We like to look at the rules and say to ourselves and others that we follow those rules and God is proud of us. However, these two verses tell us that it is those how realize that they are "poor in spirit" and are just like everyone else God's kingdom become ours. We all learn from each other. We all have something going on in our life that makes us poor and weak. We all rely on the Creator to sustain and provide for us. How poor we are and how often we do not recognize it. We miss out on the kingdom of heaven that is right here right now in each moment we live because we are attempting to not be poor in spirit. We work so hard to please our ego and have as many things, as many good opinions, and as many good feelings as we can. When this happens to us we forget about being poor in spirit and become driven to live in the next moment and not this moment. The drive to please ourselves and to avoid being poor in spirit (humble) leads to a losing of a connection with God, not a gaining of God's affection and love towards us. It is not that God moves away from us, but we move away from God by acting and thinking in ways that not like God. Be humble and poor in spirit today. Do not resist God, but rather embrace God and let God take care of you. Let go of your ego and just be.

Namaste'