Humility

So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline.

Colossians 3:12 (NIV)

When pride comes, then comes disgrace,but with humility comes wisdom.

Proverbs 11:2

Humility is the fear of the Lord; its wages are riches and honor and life.

Proverbs 22:4

So Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself except what he sees the Father do. Whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself does, and he will show him greater works than these, so that you may be amazed.

John 5:19-20 (SEG21)

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Humility is dependence on God

"Humility, the place of complete dependence on God, is, by the very nature of things, man's first duty and highest virtue. It is the root of all virtue. Thus pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of all sin and evil. " - Andrew Murray

Humility is protection

"Humility is a protection against deception" - Pastor Keith Moore

Humility in the Life of Jesus

Pastor David’s Notes:

"I am among you as one who serves.” - Luke 22:27.

In John's Gospel, the inner life of our Lord is laid bare to us. Jesus speaks frequently of his relationship with the Father, of the motives that guide him, of his awareness of the power and spirit in which he acts. Although the word humble does not appear, nowhere in Scripture do we see so clearly what his humility consisted in. We have already said that this grace is in truth nothing more than the simple consent of the creature to let God be all, by virtue of which it abandons itself to his action alone. In Jesus, we shall see how, both as Son of God in heaven and as man on earth, He took the place of complete subordination, and restored to God the honor and glory due to Him. And what He taught so often was made true for Himself: "He who humbles himself will be exalted." As it is written, "He humbled Himself, therefore God exalted Him."

Listen to the words in which our Lord speaks of His relationship to the Father, and how constantly He uses the words no, and nothing, of Himself. The non je, with which Paul expresses his relationship to Christ, is the very spirit of what Christ says about His relationship to the Father.

"The Son can do nothing of himself" (John 5:19).

"I can do nothing of myself; my judgment is righteous, for I seek not my own will" (John 5:30).

"I do not receive glory from men" (John 5, 41).

"I have not come to do My own will" (John 6, 38).

"My teaching is not My own" (John 7, 16).

"I have not come of Myself" (John 7:28).

"I do nothing of myself" (John 8:28).

"I did not come from myself, but he sent me" (John 8:42).

"I seek not my own glory" (John 8:50).

"The words I speak, I speak not of myself" (John 14, 10).

"The word you hear is not Mine" (John 14, 24).

These words open up the deepest roots of Christ's life and work. They tell us how Almighty God was able to accomplish his mighty work of redemption through his Son Jesus.

They show us that Christ looked into the heart.

They teach us the essential nature and life of that redemption which Christ accomplished and communicates to us today. It is this: Jesus was nothing, so that God might be everything.

Jesus completely surrendered his own will and power to his Father, so that his Father could act in him.

His own power, his own will, his own glory, his whole mission on earth.

He said: "It's not me; I'm nothing; I gave myself to the Father to act; I'm nothing, the Father is everything.

Jesus' life depended on the Father's will, which he found to be perfect peace and joy. He lost nothing by giving everything to God. God honored his trust, did everything for him, then exalted him to his right hand in glory. And because Christ thus humbled himself before God, and God was always before him, he found it possible to humble himself before men too, and to be the Servant of all.

His humility consisted simply in abandoning himself to God, allowing Him to do in him whatever He wanted, whatever men might say about him or do to him.

This is the true self-denial to which our Savior Jesus calls us today.

We must learn from Jesus that he is gentle and humble of heart. He teaches us where true humility originates and finds its strength - in the knowledge that it is God who acts in everything, that our place is to submit to Him in perfect resignation and dependence, in full consent to be and do nothing of ourselves.

Are you clothed in humility?

Let's be exactly like our example Jesus. Examine your daily life carefully. Ask Jesus to help you. Ask your close friends how you could function better in this godly humility. And start praising God for this heavenly humility and sharing it with the whole world.

They show what Christ considered to be the state of mind that made him the Son of the Father. They teach us the essential nature and the life of redemption that Christ accomplished and that he now communicates. It is as follows: He was nothing, so that God might be everything. He resigned himself, by his will and his powers, entirely to the action of the Father in him. Of his own power, of his own will, and of his own glory, of his whole mission with all his works and his teaching, of all this, he said: It is not I; I am nothing; I have given myself to the Father so that he may act;

I am nothing, the Father is everything.

This life of total self-denial, of absolute submission and dependence on the will of the Father, Christ found it full of perfect peace and joy. He lost nothing by giving everything to God. God honored his trust, did everything for him, and then raised him up to his right in glory. And because Christ had thus humbled himself before God, and God was always before him, it was possible for him to also humble himself before men, and to be the Servant of all. His humility was simply the act of abandoning himself to God, of allowing him to do with him as he willed, whatever the people around him might say or do to him.

It is in this state of mind that the redemption of Christ has its virtue and its effectiveness. It is to bring us to this disposition that we are participants of Christ. It is to the true renunciation to which our Savior calls us, the recognition that the self has nothing good in it, except as an empty vessel that God must fill, and that its claim to be or to do anything cannot be admitted for a single moment. This, above all, is conformity to Jesus, the fact of being nothing and doing nothing by ourselves, so that God is everything.

This is the root and nature of true humility. It is because this is not understood or sought that our humility is so superficial and weak. We must learn from Jesus how gentle and humble he is of heart. He teaches us where true humility comes from and where it finds its strength: in the knowledge that it is God who works in all things, that our place is to submit to him in perfect resignation and dependence, fully accepting that we do nothing by ourselves. This is the life that Christ came to reveal and transmit: a life in God that has passed through death to sin and to oneself. If we think that this life is too high for us and out of our reach, this should only encourage us more to seek it in Him; it is Christ who lives in us this life, gentle and humble. If we aspire to this, let us in the meantime seek above all the holy secret of knowing the nature of God, for He works at every moment in everything; the secret of which all nature and every creature, and above all every child of God, must be the witness, that it is nothing other than a vessel, a channel, through which the living God can manifest the riches of his wisdom, his power and his kindness.

Jesus was just as humble in his relations with men as with God. He felt himself to be God's servant for the men whom God had created and loved; as a natural consequence, he considered himself to be the servant of men, so that God could accomplish his work of love through him. He never thought for a single moment of seeking his honor or asserting his power to justify himself. His whole spirit was that of a life given to God for him to work in.

It is our duty to use Jesus as our example and live our lives in true dependance on God and treat others with the respect they deserve. After all we are all Gods children and we need to be initiators of our loving Heavenly Father.

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