Humility

Hey all, it’s been long. I keep finding my strength in the word of God, I’m approaching the end of my working year and have been working early mornings and late nights, I’ve had little time to rest let alone blog but it’ll all be worth it when it’s all done.

I’ve had a constant thought that’s been pulling at the strings of my heart recently, a constant reminder to me. I’ve felt the urge to continually place my dependence on God, even when I pray to keep placing my utter and complete dependence on God. When I have done that I’ve seen God move miraculously in my life.

Today’s society promotes self-glorification, vanity, pride and such whereas the word teaches differently. Paul helps us understand the attitude that we should adopt.

Philippians 3:1-10

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.

Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh. For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—though I myself have reasons for such confidence.

If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for legalistic righteousness, faultless.

But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Philippians 2:5-11

 The book of Philippians teaches a lot about humility, using our Lord as a case study, he set the ultimate example.

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.