Our Favorite Proverbs: Proverbs 18:12, The Virtue Nobody Wants
by Marilynn Chadwick
"Humility comes before honor." Proverbs 18:12
If you want to be strong, be humble. Strength comes through humility. The Bible consistently reminds us of this paradox. As believers, we are called to be servants. To give up our rights and die to self. I'm reminded of Paul's realization that only when he was "weak" was he truly "strong" (2 Corinthians 12:9-10).
We hear a lot about humility, but it seems to be the virtue nobody really wants. We admire it when we see it in others. But it's so against our nature to walk in humility that most of us run the other way. I once read…
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