We are all a part of a much bigger purpose.
Take a moment and reflect on just how many are involved in this event.
Despite that fact, we are all just bit players, none more important than the other. Each role that we play in this worldly act can have a tremendous impact on those all around us. Appreciating and honoring our role in the grand production called “life” and how our performance can help or harm those around us is the true essence of humility.
Humility is the trait that allows those that serve to lead to raise the level of those around them, by genuinely making it all about them. This is not as easy as it sounds. This requires letting go – a surrendering of a portion of your self – so that others may rise to their potential. It means that you might have to learn to do without something you cherish, so that those around you can have it for themselves.
“Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Ultimately, humility is one of the most powerful building blocks of a servant approach to leadership. It establishes a lasting and powerful connection between individuals. And it is through that sustaining linkage, that a powerful bond is not just born, but grown.
A true leader not only understands but embraces the importance and value of those around him. Everyone has a role to play, and none should be diminished in order to raise another. Those that need raising cannot be brought up due to whim or fairness. That elevation needs to be earned, and the effort genuinely recognized.
When it comes to humility, as Pastor Spurgeon offered, much is made of “making the right estimate of oneself”. What is making the right estimate of one-self? Does it mean that you should not have confidence in your abilities? That you should try any less? That you are not worthy?
No, on the contrary. It simply means that you recognize your role and that without others – with their varying abilities and talents – you cannot fulfill your true potential.
Thinking of them more never means you think less of yourself.
For serving them is truly serving yourself.
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