THE boughs that bear most, hang lowest." These words of Thomas Fuller hint at the nature of humility. The more we understand of the infinite goodness of God and of our relationship to Him as His image and likeness, the more humble we become. As, in truth, the spiritual ideas of God, Spirit, as His sons, His acknowledged heirs, we are completely dependent upon God, who is infinite good. Because man's source is infinite, he is the possessor of all good; and we are humbled by the magnitude and the grandeur of our true selfhood as God's reflections.
Humility in its true sense is a quality of strength and power. It is allied to such qualities as selflessness, simplicity, gratitude, and love. Humility is necessary if one is to gain the ability to accept spiritual evidence as true, even when material sense testifies to the contrary.
Many of the world's really great men have had a noticeable degree of humility, and the greatest man who ever walked the earth, Christ Jesus, was the humblest of all. Jesus, whose knowledge of the nature of God and of His creation was more exalted and profound than that of any other individual, expressed true humility. He knew that the reason for man's existence is to express divine Love; that thought centered on self closes the door to Love, thereby shutting out the good, which is man's rightful inheritance.
