HOW rarely has it been supposed that humility could result in might! Because men have been educated to believe that humility generally implies the yielding of one's own opinions, purposes, and desires to some one with a so-called stronger mentality, the ordinary concept of humility has often carried with it a sense of weakness rather than of strength. This has resulted in a supposition that to be humble one must submit even to great imposition— must be ready to yield quickly and without question to whatever demands may be made upon him by any one in any way. This would frequently bring upon one humiliation or mortification instead of the happy effect of true humility, which when properly understood is always seen to be a heavenly virtue.
Then to believe that one must be submissive without understanding to what he should submit, is to expose one to all sorts of dangerous possibilities. Christian Science, however, bases everything on God, divine Mind, and presents the true aspect of humility. In the first place, it shows plainly that subservience must always be rendered to God. It is divine Mind which demands man's entire allegiance, and the true humility which always acts in obedience to Mind lifts thought away from personal sense, until the false claims of personality are relinquished; then divine Mind can reign in human consciousness.
True humility, therefore, must be the ability to give up human, material concepts,—mortal thoughts,— that the ideas of divine Mind may hold sway. Every personal opinion, personal purpose, personal desire, must bow before the holy truths of perfect Mind. There must be a readiness to admit the falsity of material, corporeal sense and its evidence, in order that the glories of the one infinite Mind may take possession of our thinking and the nature of our good God be made manifest. Such humility will inevitably be expressed in the might of reflected spiritual good. As we let go of the futile, imperfect, false beliefs of a mind in matter, the majesty and power of God's invincible perfections will appear. As the beliefs which claim to constitute a material selfhood are denied and rejected,—shut out from consciousness,—the magnificent realities of a selfhood in God cannot fail to shine forth.
