Humble Like Christ

Sometimes my conscience gets the best of me and it hits me that I need to be better, spiritually mature, or simply more like Christ. It might be that someone pulls out in front of me causing me to slow down, it might be that someone dropped the ball on their ministry at church, it might be that my kids are not moving as quickly as I want them to, or it might be that I think that the world should revolve around me. When I am at my most selfish I am also at my most destructive and impulsive. It is then that I act out of anger or arrogance when things don’t go my way. All too often I have been too harsh with my children, too judgmental of a fellow Christian, and too busy to listen to the needs of others. I’m not being too hard on myself; I’m just being honest that there is a part of me that is just not good. Whenever I read a scripture like Philippians 2:5-8, I find myself convicted to move beyond my selfishness and to become the person God designed me to be. Jesus acted out of love and holiness when dealing with others, He was able to rise above human arrogance and live with a humility that built others up rather than tear them down. The more God and His Word are present in my heart and mind the more I find myself inclined to love and serve rather than to be the old selfish me. Make it your goal today to allow Christ to guide your every move, word, and thought and you will enjoy God’s glory being revealed in your every moment.

“1 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; 7 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:1-11 NIV