“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.” (Philippians 2:3)
Are you humble? Usually that’s something you need to let someone else answer for you. Even if we are correct in saying we’re humble, it always sounds . . . not humble.
Humility is a very important virtue to display. In the above passage, there’s a clear-cut description about what it looks like to be humble. There are more ways, to be sure, but it all comes down to this: counting others more significant than ourselves.
Even the annoying ones. Even the ones who frustrate you. Your spouse. Your children. In a word: everyone. To be truly humble, we must count everyone else as more significant than us.
And why must that be the standard for humility?
Because that’s what Jesus Christ did. Jesus displayed perfect humility by becoming like us and “emptying himself” (v. 7). Though he was, and is, God, he voluntarily set aside His majestic glory—not His divinity!—in order to fulfill His mission of seeking and saving the lost.
He certainly was counting us as more significant than Himself by living a perfect life and dying a sinner’s death. He took our sin, our punishment, our penalty. That is the greatest example of humility the world will ever see.
Friend, let’s be humble. Be humble by counting others as more important than ourselves.
Blake Long 
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