Humility - _ -

I've been re-learning what humility is: (From John Piper's awesome devotion "Pierced by the Word", 37)

1) HUMILITY begins with a sense of subordination to God in Christ. (Matt 10:24, 1 Peter 5:6)

2) HUMILITY does not feel it has a right to better treatment than Jesus got. (1 Peter 2: 21-23)

3) HUMILITY asserts truth not to bolster the ego with control or with triumphs in debate, but as service to Christ and love for the adversary. (1 Cor 13:6, Matt 10:27-28, 2 Cor 4:5)

4) HUMILITY knows it is fallible, and so considers criticsm and learns from it; but also knows that God has made provision for human conviction and that He calls us to persuade others.