Many think of humility as weakness.  The humble are door mats that people walk all over. 

Nothing could be further from the truth.  It takes great strength to be humble. 

Consider Jesus.  It took great strength for Jesus to humbly submit to the Father’s plan for him to die on a cross.  It took great strength for Jesus to humbly put our interests above his own to die for our sins.  Proud self-indulgence would have run.  Arrogant self-centeredness would have never come to Jerusalem, or to earth for that matter. 

And so it is for us.  It will take great strength to humbly submit to God’s plan for our lives.  It will take great strength to humbly submit to God’s commands.  It will take great strength to humbly serve the needs of others.  Indeed we need the Spirit’s power at work in us, as he was at work in Jesus, to truly be humble.

The humble are strong.