Who knew when I started writing a series of MMMs about humility, that it would be so, well, er, humbling!

I will shift where my thoughts were going this week based on life lessons.

Starting Monday and continuing til Saturday (as I write this), I’ve had the need to ask for forgiveness a minimum of four times.

I had to get clean through brokenness with one of my pastors, a mentor friend, a woman I greatly respect, and a man involved in a Gathering Locker Room, each this week.

I will compete with the Apostle Paul when I get to heaven for the title, “chief of all sinners.” (I Timothy 1:15).

• Has it made this week more challenging?  Yes.
• Have I looked in the mirror and at my heart more deeply? Yes.
• Do I feel more like a kid, than a 40-year old man? Yes.
• Has it been a good thing? Still yes.

And in the midst of some darkness in my heart, I find actually I’m more a man than before.

Men ask for forgiveness.  Men seek humility at all cost.  If forgiveness teaches us anything, it draws us into the classroom of meekness.

I see more and more, I’m far from a finished product.  Praise God! We can’t forgive or approach humility until we understand how greatly, deeply and fully we have been forgiven.

Now, I’m never going to encourage doing something dumb or sinful, for the sake of receiving pardon and grace. Wisdom doesn’t prevail there.

I’ve had many growth opportunities this week. Will I need forgiveness again in the future?  Definitely.  From those same people?  Certainly.

Will I be better for it, each and every time?  Yes.

Where do you see the winsome connection between humility and forgiveness?