humble yourselves

"He must become greater; I must become less."

-John 3:30

This verse gets me every time. It encompasses the selflessness we must have. We always give ourselves the credit. We want to be recognized. We want people to compliment us. We want to be noticed. We want people to like us.

Well, that's not how it works.

Everything we do should be for God's glory. HIS GLORY not ours. It's so hard to be okay without being noticed or complimented. Sure, we can accept the compliments, but we must realize that it's credit for God. He made us. He made the world. Creator of the universe, all that cool stuff. He deserves the credit. He deserves everything.

It's so easy to be prideful and strive for self-gratification because that's what the world tells us to do. Well, that's not what God tells us to do. We're not of this world (Romans 12:2). We're supposed to be different. That's tough, but eternal glory is way better than having people on Earth think we're cool. 

Becoming less is tough. It's giving up a lot of things. Giving up selfishness, striving to be perfect, trying to get credit, etc. It's about humbling yourself before God. It's about knowing that he is in control. That he ultimately deserves glory. He uses us. We owe him everything because he gave up everything to him. Once we live for him, we get to live with him. How cool is that?

"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble; for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, so it is believed of none but by itself; the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail nor reason."

— Francis Quarles

"Humility is royalty without a crown."

— Spencer W. Kimball