Cultivate humility?
. . . My first response is, OF COURSE!
. . . However, it is a Grace, a Gift, an imparting or it’s not very thick or deep or durable.
And, usually, it comes out of great suffering and/or great compassion, empathy, Love.
It particularly comes out of a Great Vision of The Risen Lord . . . and His train filled the Temple.
And, those ‘saturatedly infected with humility’ also come in all stripes but readily resonate with one another in The Lord’s Love and in His Humility.
Humility also seems to . . . take over a willing, eager life chunks at a time—though some of the ‘humility consumed chunks’ can be rather sizeable when the suffering is quite sizeable.
Humility tends to be gracious but is not per se wimpy nor necessarily always quiet. Christ was just as humble when castigating the religious leaders as snakes, vipers and whitewashed tombs as He was suffering on The Cross—though in many observable existential respects, the Cross version was ostensibly greater. Executed naked publically as a criminal was no HUMAN crowning glory. Yet, it was for Christ before all Creation.
Those with above average humility seem to learn the most from the humble themselves.
The broken and contrite before God seem to have and to acquire yet more, the most humility.
Those seeking most to do so, with the greatest facility of putting themselves in others skin and shoes likewise.
Alamo-Girl’s ‘a tough old Texan.’ And they don’t come any better. Any missing her humility . . . tell me by doing so . . . more about their discernment and possibly their humility than about her humility.
Humility is not always wrapped in expected wrappings.
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. - John 10:30-31
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth; And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father. - Philippians 2:5-11