Milestones on the Road to a Worthy Walk, Part 1 A Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Milestones on the Road to a Worthy Walk, Part 1 Keyword: "humility” Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Ephesians 4:1-2* 1. I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called 2. with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing forbearance to one another in love. Questions 1. What do you generally think when you hear the word, "humility"?   2. Is humility, as it often understood in our day and age, something to be esteemed?   Practical help In Ephesians 4:2, Paul lists four ingredients that make up a "worthy walk" with Christ. The first element listed is humility. I define humility as the willingness to accept that a photo of me with no touchup work is what I really look like. Today, technology allows us to manipulate photographs to such an extent that the camera can indeed lie. We can look much different — better or worse — in a photo than we really are. But humility accepts the photo before any editing and says, "So that is who I am. OK." Humility is seeing ourselves as we really are in light of who God really is. Learning humility involves an honest assessment of our character, personality, strengths and weaknesses, gifts, abilities, and shortcomings. When we are humbly owning who we are, it impacts the way we deal with each other. Humble people don't run roughshod over others' feelings. They affirm what is good and right about each other, and are honored to serve each other. And, humble people treat others as persons of worth, knowing that every other person they happen to see — on the street or on the Internet — is a valuable creation of God. Men and women who are learning the grace of humility thus have one more weapon in their arsenal for defeating porn. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2003 by eXXit *Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission. ----