Humility

I am not the most humble person out there. Absolutely not. In fact... I probably lean more towards the "prideful" side of the spectrum. I admit, I like to brag about myself and all my accomplishments. Recently however, I've been re-thinking my response to my own accomplishments. I'm currently reading Saint Augustine's The City of God. 

This book is brilliant. It's inspiring, refreshing, and everything I needed to hear.

At one point, St. Augustine writes concerning humility and pride.

There is, therefore, something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it. This seems, indeed, to be contradictory, that loftiness should debase and lowliness exalt. But pious humility enables us to submit to what is above is; and nothing is more exalted above us than God; and therefore humility, by making us subject to God, exalts us. But pride, being a defect of nature, by the very act of refusing subjection and revolting to Him who is supreme, falls to a low condition; and then comes to pass what is written: "Thou castedst them down when they lifted up themselves." 

We seem then to have a choice before us. We can either:

a) Exalt ourselves and then fall low
b) Humble ourselves and let God exalt us

I think I'm going to go with the second choice. Humility has never come very easily to me... but it's something that I can work towards. I need God to set me in my place; subject to Him. I need to remember that He is my King and it is because He has blessed me that he lets me accomplish anything in the first place.