Humility is a difficult concept for us to grasp. Humility is regarded as synonym for “doormat,” letting others walk over us, therefore, we are taught to “hitch your wagon to a star” and “don't listen to what others say” and “do your own thing."
Humility is the recognition of God as the maker of all that is good. True humility is not passively giving in to everyone else’s expectations. This denies our God-given capacity to choose our own actions and gives the other inappropriate control over what is properly ours. Jesus taught us true humility in the paradox of his death. The Gospels emphasize again and again his obedience to his Father's will. This strikes our modern sensibilities as strange and even bizarre, but Jesus in his humility and obedience to his Father released an explosion of spiritual energy that reverberates to this day.
Humility frees us from falseness to be our authentic self that we were created to be. Humility is truth.
The deepest and truest humility recognizes our creatureliness and orients us to a right relationship with our Creator. Out of the right relationship with God comes right relationship with others and an objective vision of both our strengths and weaknesses. Humility is relationship with God first, then others and ourselves.