11/23/2025
💫 WEEKLY REFLECTION: God’s humility
This week, let us reflect on God’s humility in creating us and offering us free will.
“God’s humility” might seem a bit odd. If humility means knowing ourselves as God knows us, how can God be humble? It is because God knows Himself, and His self-knowledge includes a deep and total knowledge of human nature, since human nature reflects the image of God.
God’s humility is most evident is two things. First, in the creation of the world, especially humans. In himself, God is complete – as a Trinity of persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, God is a community of love. He didn’t need to make creation; it adds nothing to God’s greatness to have made the universe. He did it purely out of love.
God wanted to create a world, and particularly to create humans, to share the love of the Trinity with other beings. Because we are made in God’s image, we can also share that love with others.
The second example of God’s humility is that he gave humanity free will. Right from the beginning God gives humanity (Adam and Eve) a choice to follow His commandments or to reject them. As wonderful as this gift is, it is also the cause of all evil. When our first parents chose to reject God’s laws, the entire universe was disrupted. Still, God was humble enough to give humanity the ability to choose.
A little boy once asked a priest why, if God knew that Adam and Eve would sin (which He did because He knows all things), He allowed it. The priest searched for an answer that would be satisfactory to a six-year-old, and finally (under the influence of the Holy Spirit) responded, “Because to God it is more important that we be free than that we be obedient.” You see, God could have created us like robots who always follow His will, but without freedom, we cannot love. Love must be a choice of will, or it is not love. Of course, He would like us to be both free and obedient, but His humility allowed Him to give humans the choice to love Him or not.
This week, let us reflect on God’s humility in creating us and offering us free will.
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