By Teboho Masakala ©
Being humble doesn’t make you dull or an
easy target for people to take you for granted.
Humility is one thing that will take you far. God uses the humble for
his work and elevates them. He never uses prideful people because all they are
and want is to boast to others and they depend on their might and will as if
like it was them that made it possible to achieve the kind of success they
have.
Many have been dethroned, lost their place
in work, position of power or lost their loved ones due to pride and boasting.
Pride will lead you to think that all you do is by your power and that you
don’t need anyone. The more prideful you are the more you are slowly going
down. Do not be deceived, God doesn’t work with pride but uses the bumble to
shame the prideful.
In this world, people boast, whatever they
have, money, cars or whatever material possession they may have they make it as
if like it was their strength that accumulated all they have. Bragging on social
media just to get a fading respect from people!
Yes a fading respect because once all they
have vanish, people also vanish!!
Humility can take you places you never imagined you will. Fused with
respect, the two can take you countries you never imagined you will be at. God
uses the humble and elevates them.
Be it at a place of work, school or
wherever you may be, stay humble. Don’t boast to anyone about what you have
because it will lead to pride that will result in your downfall. Humbly let God
be the one that will elevates you. Let what you do praise him more than this
world. Many think bragging on social media will gain them respect not knowing
it can attract both positive and negative.
Despite your success, wealth and all the
good in your life, don’t be big headed and think it was by your might to have
acquired your success. God can humble you and make you lose all you have. The Lord
gives and he takes.
You cannot praise God when you are full of
pride. It will be hard to do so, but remain humble, respect everyone and that
alone can lead God to shower you with plenty rain of blessings. Graves are the saddest
place ever because they have a testimony of those buried in them who were
killed by pride. If graves could talk, they would tell and spew out of them
those who died because of refusing to remain humble.
Those who fought as their
pride was at stake and as such didn’t want to lose it.
If graves could talk, they would narrate
about those who totally refused to remain humble as they didn’t want to be
undermined. They would advise those alive how important it is to remain humble. Sadly
they can’t talk.
Don’t be carried away by pride or material
success. Put humility above all. Patrice Motsepe, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther
(Lutheran Church founder) John Wesley (Methodist Church founder) Nathi Mankayi
and others are examples of how higher humility can take you. God uses the
humble and elevates them. Against all odds, remain humble.
