26-Jan-2021_in humility is strength
More from the “Seeds of David”: Candle Vase 
In humility is strength of the richest kind; the kind that holds. For humility holds up under pressure, whereas pride and self-image that is based on fanciful wishes, can’t stand the real tests.
Take for example what happened on the weekend, when you said something to one person, and then a listening-in person blurted out a hurtful comment on it. It was the last thing you were expecting, and you didn’t know you’d suddenly feel the sting. You wondered what that was all about, and why it hurt you so. 
But what you said had its roots in pride, rather than in humility. You could say the same thing, but your heart be of a humbler position, and then their comment would have ran right off of you. You had no idea that pride was in anyway attached, but that’s how you find out. You get a test, and if “ouch” there is a stinging painful sensation, then you can know the cloak of humility wasn’t fully covering you.
You can’t root out every place that pride resides, for it’s just in the nature of man. But the built-in “correcting method” helps you become aware of it. 
Just knowing that pain comes with pride is a great help to your spiritual progress. If you make the right connections and link the dots, then you’ll see things right. You’ll see that, “Oh, that’s what happened. I don’t have a pure heart about that thought and what I said. Lord, I claim the keys of humility to cloak me and cover me and to keep pride out of my heart.”
Otherwise, what is the other option? You’ll place the blame on the person that the hurt seemed to stem from. Yes, they spoke out of pride too, but pride attracts pride.
Keep your heart clean before the Lord by donning Heaven’s cloak of humility to shield you from the pride of man. Pray against pride before you speak, and ask for Heaven’s humility servicing to suit you up and get you to say things in a humble way, and to have your heart in the position to learn. That’s humility. 
You can’t truly learn things without humility, for God’s Spirit comes to the humble. Anything that His Spirit wouldn’t want you to learn, isn’t real learning. So that’s why you can be of a mind to “learn” no matter what is being said or done, by anyone. You don’t necessarily “learn” whatever they are wishing for you to. What I’m talking about is learning what God can use the experience to teach you—whatever His Spirit punches through to teach your heart and spirit. 
Be ready to learn and eager to investigate and find out more truths, knowing how little, how very very minute a grasp you have on all that there is to know. –Along with everyone else, who are all still learning too.