humility.

I've been studying the word humility for about a month. I've come to realize that humility is like a large umbrella. It encompasses so much. It is incredibly important if we want to follow God and someday return to live with Him again. It is vitally important if we want to have joy in this life.

This is what I have learned:

To be humble is to recognize that you have strengths and weaknesses.

It is not making claims based on those strengths and those weaknesses.

It is remembering that God is in charge and that ultimately, your strength comes from Him.

It is giving Him the honor and the glory for your success.

It is always being grateful to Him for everything that you are and that you have.

It is submitting yourself to God's will.

It is never drawing attention to yourself, for better or worse.

It is continuing to learn about yourself and God through study and prayer.

It is praying to Him daily, kneeling down, admitting that you need Him and asking Him for help.

It is repenting of your sins, changing yourself to become more like Him, aligning your will with His.

It is relying on Jesus Christ's Atonement and grace.

It is never being jealous, fearful, or prideful.

It is never complaining, only obeying.

It is never comparing yourself to others.

It is accepting and embracing correction and reproof.

It is putting your trust in God and Jesus Christ for everything and in all situations.

I know that if we rely completely on our Heavenly Father, we will have joy and one day return to live with Him again. We can look to Jesus Christ and see how perfectly humble, submissive, meek, and lowly in heart he is. We must follow his example and work to develop the Christlike attribute of humiliy.

"Therefore, what manner of men ought ye to be? Verily I say unto you, even as I am." (3 Nephi 27:27, Book of Mormon)

Over the past month I have studied humility in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, True to the Faith, the KJV Bible, the Book of Mormon, and Preach My Gospel.