{"id":2273,"date":"2016-02-18T15:37:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2016-02-18T15:37:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:37:53","slug":"what-is-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=2273","title":{"rendered":"What is Humility?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;&#8230; in humility count others more significant than yourselves.&#8221;<\/span> (Philippians 2:4)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Humble.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2274\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Humble.jpg\" alt=\"Humble\" width=\"720\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Humble.jpg 720w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Humble-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Humble-676x357.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biblical view of humility is precisely <em>not<\/em> feigned or groveling, nor a sanctimonious or pathetic lack of self-esteem, but rather a mark of moral strength and integrity. It involves an unadorned acknowledgement of one\u2019s own creaturely inadequacies, and entrusting one\u2019s fortunes to God rather than to one\u2019s own abilities or resources. &#8230; Humility has &#8230; an &#8216;ex-centric&#8217; orientation, taking its focus outside oneself, and finding its power in the power of God.&#8221; (Markus Bockmuehl, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Epistle-Philippians-Blacks-Testament-Commentary\/dp\/0801049415\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1455827165&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=bockmuehl\" target=\"_blank\">The Epistle to the Philippians<\/a>, p.110)<\/p>\n<p>Humility &#8220;is simply the sense of entire nothingness which comes when we see how truly God <em><strong>is all<\/strong><\/em>, and in which we make way for God to <em><strong>be all<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; (Andrew Murray, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Humility-Beauty-Holiness-Andrew-Murray\/dp\/0875087108\/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1455827765&amp;sr=1-8&amp;keywords=humility+andrew+murray\" target=\"_blank\">Humility<\/a>, p.14)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; in humility count others more significant than yourselves.&#8221; (Philippians 2:4) \u201cThe biblical view of humility is precisely not feigned or groveling, nor a sanctimonious or pathetic lack of self-esteem, but rather a mark of moral strength and integrity. It involves an unadorned acknowledgement of one\u2019s own creaturely inadequacies, and entrusting one\u2019s fortunes to God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippians","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-AF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}