Comment I heard from an old AA member, of many years sobriety--"About the time you think you're humble, you best realize you aren't."
I am using the term humility here as "spiritual humility"...and of course that leaves me in exactly the state you suggest. As a person reaches for spiritual humility, one experiences an elevation...a suspension of the laws of gravity.
You have in fact touch upon the very essence of "the Way." The more a person seeks to be obedient to the Word, the more one rises upward. The humbler one become, the more sublime one becomes. The more one serves, the more one feels nobility.
That is what Jesus gives us. Royalty by giving.