In other words, your judgment of me doesn’t matter either. The only person who’s judgment counts its he lords. He’s the only one who can accurately understand my heart (even when I cant understand it) and I trust Him to judge and reward faithfully. Commenting on this passage, Tim Keller writes that the humble "person would never be hurt particularly badly by criticism. It would not devastate them; it would not keep them up late... A person who is devastated by criticism is putting too much value on what other people think, on other people’s opinion."

God is greater than our heart.

The question whether I feel worthy to be called is beside the point; that God has called is the one thing that matters.

Humility teaches us that we must pray and speak truth and love but must not nag and pressure and guilt and manipulate. Humility teaches us to trust God. And suddenly, a burden rolls off our back. We are no longer responsible to produce faith in another person’s heart (as if they could). We are no longer responsible for someone’s relationship with Christ or the holy spirits work. He is.

Humility teaches us to wait for God to answer. Humility teaches us to let knowledge ripen.

Trust in the lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. (Prov. 3) He will guide you in all truths.

He (God) asks you to trust him. He asks you to live in dependence. He asks you to humble yourself to wait him.

Pride convinces us that we deserve a certain experience of the world, and when something disrupts that, our pride reveals itself by complaining.

We like to believe that we are self-made men. We like to believe that we possess what we have because of our hard work and intentionality and focus. But we do not. All is a gift.

"The essential heresy is, that work is not the expression of man’s relative energy in service of society, but only something one does to obtain money and leisure." - Dorothy L. Sayers

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