Our world screams for it today. God is searching high and low for it.

But we rarely see it, and it can even be a tough word to spell.

Humility. Not humidity … us Ohioans experience that often.

This topic so important, I’m going to hold court on it for the next several weeks.

Humility to me is clearly seen in William Temple’s famous quote. “Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.”

One prayer I effort to pray often is “God, give me the grace to see myself for who I am, and the grace to see You for who You are.”

When that happens and God responds accordingly, I can’t be anything other than humble.  As in, utmost humility.

I am nothing, and He’s everything and He fills in that gap.

John 15:4-5 speaks well to this – “⁴Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. ⁵“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”

Why has LeBron James approval rating fallen so dramatically, more than even recent presidents?  People could have gotten past him leaving Cleveland, but his seeming arrogance.  Sure ESPN aided him.  Charles Barkley was tough on him, on NBC today.  ESPN took many shots at him and “The Decision” on the recent ESPYs.

We don’t have to look to DC, Hollywood, or to any other venue of high profile leaders and public figures, to see where humility is missing.  More and more, it’s become too common in the body of Christ.

Literary Nobel winner George Bernard Shaw went so far as to say, “The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.”

Can we argue with him? We’ll explore this obsolete characteristic much more in coming weeks.