The discipline of service helps us grow in humility, and humility makes us ready to serve. It's a reciprocal relationship.

The same is true for service and courage: When we make a habit of serving, we find ourselves willing to do the right thing even when it's risky. And there are some kinds of service that require great risk!

The story of Esther helps us discern when we've been called to our work "for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14), for the high-stakes situation that requires great courage. But we practice for those dramatic moments in our day-to-day low-stakes decisions to practice honesty about our own shortcomings.

Sources: Philippians 2:1-13 (NIV)

Esther 4:10-14 (ESV)

"Said 'almost done' on the project update" (meme), reposted by u/Square_Tangerine_659, "Peetah?", r/PeterExplainsTheJoke, September 4, 2025.

Timothy Keller with Katherine Leary Alsdorf, Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work (New York: Penguin Random House, 2012).

Arthur Bennett, The Valley of Vision (Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Banner of Truth, 1975).

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