It is my opinion that people generally don’t think about themselves accurately. We often think too highly of ourselves. When we achieve things, we tend to forget how others contributed to the success. When we give we overstate our generosity. When we think about ourselves we rate our strengths too highly and discount our weaknesses, especially on resumes.
Some of us actually think too lowly of ourselves. We overstate or imagine weaknesses. We undervalue the strengths we do have. Humility is a good character trait to possess but humility does not mean to think lowly of yourself. Humility means to think accurately about yourself and to act accordingly.
Once again Jesus is our example. Philippians 2:5-11 says, “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name above every other name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Jesus’ humility not only teaches us how to be humble but also demonstrates his Lordship over all things.
Reluctant Retiree 