Humility: The substance of true humans

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Humility is the substance of what makes us flesh and blood; for to be humble is to be human and to be human is to be humble. Ultimately, it is to say that we cannot make a distinction between the two. But what essentially is humility?

Humility is staying within the ambit of the human corridor. It's realizing that as humans we have limitations and having to work with that reality. Humility does not equate to timidness, it doesn't amount to abdication of your dignity in pretentious submission. Humility is holding your onion and yet realizing that you're human.

To live outside of this context is to in a way seemingly disown the fact of our humanness or at best to live in pretence. Our nature as human is created in a staple imperfection, that even as much as we try to pursue perfection, we are forever deluded of it, just making the circuitious effort to attain it.

God in his infinite wisdom has decided to make us human, substance of imperfection for the very reason that we reflect in earnest the very rudiments of our humanness. Humility it is. We must approach the very source of our being with the primary element that defines us and which he cherishes. Is it not said that God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.

What it means is that to enjoy a lasting relationship with God, we must assume our true nature, approach him in an unassuming humility. He will not despise us. And even in such vein as we're blessed by approaching him in ultimate humility, it behoves also on us to reach out to and relate with our fellow individuals in self same spirit, realizing that all that we've received and are are products of grace.

The urge on us all is to recognize our deep frailties and acknowledge that as humans we owe nature and our fellows that elementary virtue of humility. We must exhibit it in continuous learning, whether in our relationship with inferiors or superiors.

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