What it really means to give
Humility is a peculiar thing, once we think we have it it's gone. Humility is the absence of pride. For me to write and say that I have it... to count the ways in showing you how I use it— how I submit to it's beckoning would be vanity. Think of this seemingly peculiar act of service, the act that goes against the grain of our natural human tendencies as something not to be grasped with words. It must be seen in our actions by others. It's our attitude of service toward another. That is how we practice humility. Humility always has recipients. Jesus humbled Himself to the death on a cross. It was His attitude of service for His Father on behalf of a lost world. He was willing to die so that you and I might live. Just as Jesus didn't let our rejection of Him stop His service toward the Father on our behalf, we shouldn't let our humble acts of service on behalf of other's stop us in our act of service to the Father. Once our intent is fixed ...