The Lord Jesus “took a child and set him by Him.” This shows us our place: we ought to seek the lowest place.
We never can have it because Christ has taken it. He went down under sin, wrath, death. He took the lowest place, because the servant of all. This is the truly happy place for us, but how it judges self. This is what the cross does.
Not only the idols are judged, but self is judged. It is a blessed thing to have done with self. When there is room for God, we can be full of joy and happiness.
We are not humble, even when we are occupied with our own nothingness, or how bad we are, but we are humble when we do not think of ourselves at all.
When we have to learn our nothingness and badness, that is being humbled. If we get away from the Lord, we have to be brought back, and that is a humbling process.
We want to judge the flesh in ourselves. It is quite easy to judge it in another, but it is in ourselves we miss it.