Strengthen your faith in God's word

A prominent Christian grace (Rom 12:3; Rom 15:17, Rom 15:18; 1 Cor 3:5–7; 2 Cor 3:5; Phil 4:11–13). It is a state of mind well pleasing to God (1 Pet 3:4); it preserves the soul in tranquillity (Ps 69:32, Ps 69:33), and makes us patient under trials (Job 1:22).

Christ has set us an example of humility (Phil 2:6–8). We should be led thereto by a remembrance of our sins (Lam 3:39), and by the thought that it is the way to honour (Prov 16:18), and that the greatest promises are made to the humble (Ps 147:6; Isa 57:15; Isa 66:2; 1 Pet 5:5). It is a “great paradox in Christianity that it makes humility the avenue to glory.”