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Humility, Gentleness, Patience - Ephesians 4:1-2

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  Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:1-2 Humility I love the Lord. It is important for me, a child of God, to declare that I love Him. All that I am flows from that. And I can forget this, so I repeat it. I am His. This verse is an urging. A command even. A command to be active. To walk. What does it mean to walk? Walking is something that people do without even thinking about it if they are beyond infancy and healthy. They just get up and go. It’s regular and normal. How should I, a child of God, walk? Worthy of the calling I have received. That calling is that I obey. That I walk in the light, in the spirit. That I do things like pray and study what God wants of me. That I am kind and humble. Walk with humility. I admit, I used to dislike that word. It sounded so passive. Well, I misunderstood the word. Because, Jesus was meek (s