For the past two days my devotional (’What Jesus Demands from the World’ -Piper) in the morning has been about…humility. Interestingly enough, I found out I knew very little about the kind of humility Jesus demands from us as His children. After all, the opposite of humility is pride, but pride rears it’s ugly face in many ways. Boasting is the result of pride due to success. Self-pity is the result of pride to our suffering. Either way, at the root of both are the feeling, emotion, thought that we deserve more or that we deserve praise.
At the end of the two devotionals Piper closed with giving short review that he called ‘Humility: Five Implications for BOLD TRUTH TELLING.’ So I thought for today I would share those five implications with you guys. However, before I do, again I want to say that this is all Piper’s work & words, not my own…I’m just sharing! 
1)Humility begins with a sense of subordination to God in Jesus.
‘A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a slave above his master’ (Matt. 10:24)
Our conviction does not come from exalting ourselves but from submitting ourselves to the one who reveals himself to us in His word and commands us to speak it.
2) Humility does not feel a right to better treatment than Jesus got.
‘If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign the members of his household’ (Matt. 10:25)
Therefore, humility does not return evil for evil. It is not a life based on perceived rights. It is a life of sacrifice.
3) Humility asserts thruth not to bolster ego with control or with triumphs in debate.
‘What I [Jesus] tell you in the darkness, speak in the light…do not fear’ (Matt. 10:27-28)It speaks truth as a service to Christ as love to the adversary.
4) Humility knows it is dependent on grace for all knowing and believing and speaking.
“Apart from me you can do nothing’ (John 15:5)
This will create a demeanor that is neither cocky nor timid.
5) Humility knows it is fallible, and so considers criticism and learns from it, but it also knows that God has made provision for human conviction and that He calls us to persuade others.
Jesus told us that the church should stand ready to correct the wayward member (Matt. 18:15-17)
And he told us that even though we are fallible and may need correction; we should unashamedly go and make disciples of all nations, tell them to do everything Jesus Commanded (Matt. 28:19-20).
(’What Jesus Demands from the World,’ John Piper, 135-136)
In the end, two other things he said really stuck out to me. He said, “Humility does not flow directly from the performance of a self-renouncing will.” After all, then we would boast of what we have done. So, he went on to say, “Humility is the gift to recieve all things as a gift thankfully and unself-consciously.”