Humble part 3
Just go about your business quietly. I think that's the best way to be humble. Don't brag about it. And don't whine about it either. Just do what you can do. Don't draw attention to yourself. And, listen, its easy for me to say this as someone who doesn't like to have the spotlight on them. But I think its a sound principle regardless. Proverbs 17:28 says, "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of undertstanding." Basically, no answer is better than a wrong answer. Right? Being loud and barreling ahead often hurts more than it helps. Thinking you have all the answers just shows that you probably don't even know what the question is. But if you can just do as 1 Thessalonians 4:11 says, "And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you." Or in the Message Bible, "Stay calm; mind your own business; do your own job. You've heard all this from us before, but a reminder never hurts." Just stay in your lane. Just do what you can do. Live a quiet life where you don't HAVE to be the center of attention. Don't try to do too much. Don't try to be someone you're not. There's a line from TV show that says, "If you have to tell someone you're a king... you're not." If you have to shout it from the rooftops... who are you trying to convince? Other people... or yourself? Think about the greatest athletes. They don't go around telling people how great they are. Because they know that their performance speaks for itself. Everybody else says it about them. Those athletes that DO toot their own horns... even if they are amazing... it diminishes it. "Look at me!" Well, we already were. But now we don't want to. As much. Nobody likes to be told what to do. Nobody likes to have things forced down their throats. They'll end up choking on it and throwing it up. But a soft word of encouragement goes a long way. Little things that mean a lot. But quiet things, sometimes. Things that done to accomplish something OTHER than drawing attention. Things that are done to accomplish things that need to be done. Just taking care of business. And not expecting applause for it. Its nice to get a pat on the back. Yes. I understand that. But if that's the goal... its a bad goal. I'm sorry. If you're in it for what you can get out of it... you've missed the point. Love is never about getting. Because love IS giving. You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving. And remember that old saying, "If someone bless you, never forget it. If you bless someone, never remember it." Just do what you can do and leave it at that. Don't try to be someone you're not. Don't try to do more than you can do. Stay calm. Mind your own business. Do you own job. Secrets of life. Be humble. Don't draw attention to yourself. Live out of your abundance. See a need and meet it. But don't do it for the applause. Don't do it to get something. Do it because you have something. Give what you've got. Its what everybody needs. But be cool about it.