Humility of Jesus

As a follower of Christ, I've been struggling to get myself back on track in my spiritual journey to grow. I've been having a hard time feeling connected with God and wondering what I could DO to grow and to become more zealous for God (it's been a long layover). D. Willard and Richard Foster comes to mind immediately; how I need to be trained more on spiritual disciplines in my life. Stop doing the wrong things and the start doing the right things, at least, to become more in tune with that in my life. But I realize that even though "DOING" and "NOT DOING" things are important, I've been stagnant, because of the lack of humility in my life. I'm not only talking about lacking humility in the sense that I'm prideful; nor am I only referring to lacking humility in the sense that I'm living a self-centered and self-reliant life. What I'm really talking about in terms of lacking humility is essentially my conservative, religious & legalistic outlook on what it means to be a disciple of Christ. When I evaluste honestly my walk with God, I wouldn't describe myself as a Bible thumping, extreme fundamentalist. I don't beat the people over the head with 10 commandments and the do's and don'ts of Christian life. However, like everyone I have a hard time understanding humility that we must find in Christ alone. So, even though it's tough to admit, I find myself making Christian life to be Christ plus something; Christ plus growing the church; Christ plus preaching well; Christ plus doing the right things and shunning the wrong things. This is not the humility of grace of God and grace of Christ's humility. Grace is Christ alone; nothing more & nothing less. And living a life "out loud" is to really find humility. That's why Jesus said, "Come to ME, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Andrew Murray said it this way, "His humility is our salvation and His salvation is our humility." What an incredible insight! It's living in this humililty that will free us from any legalism (religious or liberal legalism--refer to Tim Keller's definition of liberal legalism). It's living in this humility that will lead us to the green pasture of his REST, not only offered now, but for all eternity.