Humility & Obedience

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“Humility & Obedience”
By Zach Wood
Philippians 2:8 (NIV)
“And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!”

It seems these days in life, we have so many difficulties and challenges to keep things in line in our life. Some days, it seems all we can do is try to keep our head above water and just breathe. Some days life just hands us some pretty difficult cards and we have to do our best and try our best to keep on the path of Christ.

This passage deals us two words that are probably the hardest words to deal with no matter what we face each day. While the pressures of life weigh us down, it is very challenging to be humble and obedient to what God wants us to do. Being humble, Christ asks us to consider others better than ourselves. That’s hard. We know we should do it, but it’s downright hard. Being obedient, God asks us to do what He says even when it doesn’t make sense or seem logical to us at all.

Christ was the epitome of a humble and obedient life. There is no greater example that we can look to than Him. As much as others in Scripture tried to emulate this life, Jesus took the baton and perfected it. While I’m glad He became the perfect example, I also am saddened each day that I find myself failing at being humble and obedient even in the smallest of ways.

I desperately want my life to be a representation of humility and obedience not only to serve and please my Master, but also to be a light to those who don’t know Who Christ is. Christ went through the hardest of circumstances and He still went to the Cross and gave it all for us. When I think it’s too hard to be humble and too hard to be obedient, I need only remember what He did for me and then it challenges me to change my attitude.

Are you humble and obedient to Christ today? Are you finding yourself practicing humility and being obedient even when it seems impossible? Some days seem easier and then other days are so hard we can’t seem to get it right. Christ knows we struggle and that we will continue to struggle each day we are on this earth. Are we striving each day to practice humility and obedience, even in the smallest of ways so that we can please Him and also be a shining example to others?

 

[whitestone]

It is so hard to be humble. Yet the God of all being humbled Himself, bent over carrying my sins, forgiving me, loving me, even whilst I was unrepentant... it is so desirable, to be like that. I pray always He would be like that in me as His final goal in my life, that I may be perfect even as He is perfect

 

[DPMartin]

It’s always interesting how people like interpret what humility is. As in form it into their own image of what they want others to believe it is. That way they can look humble in the eyes of their neighbor.

But according to the Lord:
Micah:6:8: He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Jesus being of God and Heaven came to execute that very thing that a Son of God is, in the flesh to the satisfaction of the Father. Mainly because it wasn’t done yet, and no one but God knows exactly how it’s to be done, or fulfilled. The Pharisees and the like were the authorities of the day, and the Lord Jesus wasn’t exactly "Mr. Humble" in their presence, was He?
What should be understood, is the "humility" is witnessed and acknowledged by your God, not necessarily by others. And how is that so, if someone is doing you wrong or done you wrong do you love and respect God’s Mercy enough to actually ask the Lord to have mercy on those souls? Do you bring your case before the Lord being correct that you are in the right and ask the Lord to have mercy on the guilty. You know like and person bring a case to court that has been done wrong by the other party and ask the judge to have mercy on them. I’m not talking about you forgiving here, I’m talking about asking God to have Mercy which by the way would also mean to bless them.

In the Kingdom of God there is no justification for those who were condemned to condemn the already condemned.
Or how about what you think is right? Do you agree with the Lord Jesus that He being King is Always correct in all things. Do you agree and respect that its not your own judgement of what is good for you that is good for you, it’s the Lord your God’s Judgement of what is good for you is good for you? Anyone that goes by there own judgement of what is good for themselves does as Adam and Eve did, disregarding what God’s Judgement of what is good for them. This world and its thinking, is a constant execution of condemnation or admiration. And what truly deserves any admiration is God’s Mercy on the condemned, which is all the souls in the world that haven’t received God’s mercy.