Article May 21, 2012 Issue

Humility: Pausing for the Divine

Experience the strength and power of humility by humbly letting the Divine take the lead in your daily life.

Janet Clements

The bush burned, but was not consumed. Moses looked and turned aside to see this great sight (see Exodus, chap. 3). It was his humble pausing to observe and ponder the
Divine that opened up a conversation with God and subsequently led him to fulfill a mission that still blesses the world today. 

Humility can be described as a turning of thought to the Divine, to God. It is a quiet focus of motive that desires only to listen for and follow the divine will. In fact, the will, the law, of God is already written in our hearts (see Jeremiah 31:33), and humility recognizes its presence. 

When God spoke to Moses, He invited him to take off his shoes, because Moses was standing on holy ground. It was as if God was saying—remove the shoes of self-doubt, fear, guilt, stress, discouragement, and matter-based thinking that mire you down in limitations, and stand on the holy ground of Spirit. 

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