Humility

Our example of humility is the Lord Jesus Himself, He humbled himself and became a man so that He could identify with man.  He was tempted as we are but He never sinned, read Hebrews 4:14-15, “Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”

Think about Jesus laying His life down for all mankind; without His willingness, all the Roman guards plus all the Temple guards could not have put Him on the cross.  If you think about the power He had at any time He could have called on ten thousand angels or more if he wanted to.  Read what just one angel did in Isaiah 37:33-36, “Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord. For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake. Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.”

He came to earth for a purpose and He fulfilled that purpose.  Being humble doesn’t mean He was like a doormat that people could step on either.  He wasn’t here to throw His weight around and to act better than everyone else, no, He associated with the down and out people, those that the religious leaders would have nothing to do with.  If you have some knowledge of God’s Word, which by the way is the truth, you know that Jesus had a righteous anger but He did not sin.

Read Matthew 21:10-14, “And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.”

And you can read John 2:13-18 also if you would like.  If you read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and many other places in God’s Word, you will read all the wonderful things Jesus did.

Now read what Paul encouraged the saints in Philippi to be like.  Read Philippians 2:1-16, “If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.”

I have given you something to think about, if you put these things into practice you will be a better person.  May the good Lord bless you and yours and may you all have a super day!!