Humility means there’s so much less at stake, so much less to protect. You’ll become difficult to offend simply because there’s so much less of you to defend. When you are headed into a stressful social situation with difficult, offensive people, and you decide in advance, “I’m not going to let these people offend me; I’m forgiving them in advance,” you are dying to yourself. You are sacrificing yourself on their behalf. You are making yourself less. You’re willingly giving up your own interests and desires, because of your conviction about who Jesus is.
