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Jan 15, 2015 · Let’s learn to walk in humility and serve like Jesus did (Matthew 20:28). Jesus showed us His core identity when He took off His robe and girded Himself with a towel, and washed His...
- Debbie Przybylski
- What Is Humility?Link
- Is God Humble?Link
- Christ Humbled Himselflink
- By Becoming Obedientlink
- To The Point of Deathlink
- Humbled with Himlink
- He Will Lift You Uplink
Fittingly, the first mention of humilityin all the Bible comes in the escalating showdown between Egypt’s Pharaoh and Israel’s God, mediated through Moses. Moses first dared to appear before Pharaoh in Exodus 5, and spoke on Yahweh’s behalf, “Let my people go” (Exodus 5:1). To which Pharaoh replied, “Who is Yahweh, that I should obey his voice and ...
Put another way, humility embraces the reality that I am not God. Pride led to humanity’s fall when Adam and Eve desired to “be like God” (Genesis 3:5) contrary to his command. Humility would have obeyedhis command — which is what we will see below in Christ. Humility, then, is a creaturely virtue. It is a posture of soul and body and life that ack...
Let’s marvel, then, at this remarkable word from the apostle Paul — that Christ “humbled himself” (Philippians 2:8). Note first, confirming our definition above of humility as a creaturely virtue, that the eternal Son first became man (verse 7), then humbled himself (verse 8). The verb Paul uses to capture the action of the incarnation is not humbl...
So, first, he became man. Then, as man, came the creaturely virtue: “he humbled himself.” Paul confirms what we learned about humility in the negative example of Pharaoh in Exodus 10: How did Jesus “humble himself”? By becoming obedient. To humble oneself is to acknowledge God as Lord and to obey as servant. In order to do so, then, the Son had to ...
But his self-humbling does not stop at obedience. The apostle adds, “to the point of death.” Christ’s obedience was an all-the-way obedience. A true obedience. He did not obey for a time, as long as it was comfortable, and then try another path. No, he obeyed to the point of death. Real obedience endures in obedience. Christ did not begin in obedie...
God indeed does command our humility. His hand and plan conspire to humble us, whether through pandemics or through the consequences of personal sins. And there in our humbling, whether our own sin played a part in it or not, he invites us to humble ourselves — and in no small measure by learning from the self-humbling of Christ. The humility of Ch...
The humility of Christ, in his life and death and resurrection, also testifies to one of God’s clearest and most memorable promises in all the Scriptures: he humbles the proud, and exalts the humble. So it was with Christ. He humbled himself, and “God has highly exalted him” (Philippians 2:9) — literally, “super-exalted” (Greek hyperypsōsen). And s...
May 10, 2020 · If anyone ever had a good reason not to be humble it was Jesus. He was superior in every way to everyone around Him and He had no fault or weakness of which to be ashamed. Yet, scripture holds Him before us as the ultimate example of humility.
Jesus’ humility isn’t just a personal virtue but a demonstration of God’s love and mercy. In Ephesians 2:8-9, Paul writes, “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast.”
- When He Left Heaven for Earth. "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others."
- When He Became a Servant. Christians must learn to behave with the true humility of Jesus. Jesus is known for many things, but humility was perhaps His defining characteristic.
- When He Died on the Cross. Jesus' death on the cross was not only an act of love for us, His people, but it was also an act of obedience. When Jesus died on the cross, He never argued about His rights but accepted His fate.
Apr 3, 2020 · The supreme example of humility was the attitude that Jesus had when He rescued us from sin. If we truly exist in baptismal union with the Messiah, then we will have an attitude of loving humility in our relationship with others and self-sacrificing obedience to God.
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Jesus speaks frequently of His relation to the Father, of the motives by which He is guided, of His consciousness of the power and spirit in which He acts. Though the word humble does not occur, we shall nowhere in Scripture see so clearly wherein His humility consisted.
