my humble button

It was dumb, but we used to say that we were so humble that we were going to get humble buttons so people would know how humble we were. Yeah, I told you it was dumb. I think that really, most people struggle on some level with pride. It was the reason for Satan's fall, and it really seems to be the root of most sin.
I have been doing this self-inventory and finding myself living mostly for myself. As I begin to do this recognition I have begun praying that God would begin to weed out the things that I am doing for myself and move me toward a selfless life centered on Christ and others. I have been praying this way all week, and today I ended up listening to a podcast from Mosaic with Erwin McManus speaking. I was just listening to the next one in line and was amazed at how God can just take things from all over your life and tie them together. It was a talk on a passage that I've heard taught, read, read books on and meditated on, but today it was more poignant than ever. "Blessed are the poor in spirit..." Jesus put everyone else before himself. He would never have fought for his rights or have tried to get the best of anything before someone else could get to it. If he were to see that there were only a couple of pieces of pizza left, he would go hungry and just let others take it. He always thought first of his Father and others.
The reality is that if I am going to truly follow the Jesus of the Bible, I have to be selfless I have to humble myself to the reality that others are more important than my will and desires. I must be poor in spirit. I must allow the way of Jesus to permeate my arrogant spirit and live in a posture of humility.
I want to be blessed of God. I must become more like His Son. I need to be poor in spirit.