Feeling Sick? It could be humility.

Humility is so much the essence of the Holy Spirit, yet so foreign to human nature, that when humility clothes an individual after an exceptional divine encounter or in response to experiencing a failure or shortcoming, our typical reaction is to soon perceive humility as a temporary sickness from which we must quickly recover, rallying our prideful reasonings and minimizing of our weaknesses to assist us in healing from the experience which felt so painful to our self-esteem. We would be so much advantaged in our lives if we could acquire a virulent, incurable case of the stuff!  Philippians 2