Is God humble?

Is God humble?

It seems like such a simple question.

It's actually a pretty simple question, but the answer is not.

It's a great question, exactly the kind of question we've come to expect from our perceptive

listeners out there.

This time from a listener named Tanner, Hello Tony and Pastor John, thank you for your

faithful service to God and to his people across the world through this podcast.

I was recently thinking about how the pursuit of good character is the pursuit to better

imitate the inherent goodness of God.

But I hit a mental hurdle when I applied this framework to humility.

Throughout your ministry, you have defined our humility as knowledge of our own fallibility.

This cannot work for God, obviously, so perhaps God cannot be humble because he's infallible.

Is God humble at all or can we imitate him or not?

Or is humility reserved for creatures, Pastor John, what would you say to Tanner?

Tanner has put his finger on a concern that I have had for a long time, namely, that we

might make God imitation or even Christ imitation, like, what would Jesus do?

The bracelets we used to, right?

We might make God imitation and Christ imitation too central in the way we think about the pursuit

of holiness or virtue or love.

And the reason I'm concerned is the very problem that Tanner has seen, namely, there is a

lot about God.

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