False Humility or Authentic Humility

So many people have superiority complexes that they fail to see their sinfulness. I don't think these people can be saved.

I came to Christ because God opened my eyes to my sinfulness. It caused me to be broken and ready to be cleansed by Christ.

How can someone be cleansed by Christ while still remaining confident about their own goodness? Sadly this is in the church!

I see also much false humility, the shuffling of feet while looking downward toward their shoes, their eyes shifted away from those they speak to as though they are not worthy. Never any mention of their past sinfulness and that Christ cleansed them. They do not see that they ever needed cleansing. In the next moment they are raging because someone told them they were wrong about something.

False humility is a sin, its a cover up for anger that remains inside. Authentic humility does not hang its head, turn away its eyes or shuffle its feet. Authentic humility looks straight at someone while telling the truth.

Philippians 2:3-11
"Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men."

James 4:6
"But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Those who demonstrate false humility are false in every area of their lives. Pretense is a character flaw through and through, not only in one area.

Colossians 3:12
"Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,"

False meekness is the pretense that one must appear weak. True meekness is as someone once said; "power under control." Meek people are not mousy, they just know that Christ is their leader and they have nothing of themselves to offer. They are not sad or whimpy, they are confident and powerful while knowing what they are and what Christ is.

Romans 12:3
"For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned."

False humility is proud of the humility they pretend to have in themselves. Their brand of humility is human concocted not God driven.

An authentically humble person does not have to "try" to be humble or "appear" to be so, they just operate this way naturally because they are walking in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 11:2
"When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom."