Simply Love

I feel like I have a weekly theme that God wants me to think about. This week seemed to be about humility.

When I think about how society rules the cultural norm, humility plays no part in it. Defined from dictionary.com, humility is "the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance, rank, etc." Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone needs to be noticed, to have a voice and say in something that would make them feel important. There is a constant striving of becoming the best person in selective categories such as most outspoken, most popular, wealthiest, etc. A longing to be anything less of that is non-existent in this society. You have to be someone!

As Christians, this sort of self-ism stands nowhere in what we believe in. Our Savior and role model is our prime example. If you read John 13, Jesus washes his disciple's feet. How lowly can you get! Peter acknowledges that Jesus is Christ and refuses to let the Messiah wash his feet, but Jesus insists.

This is the attitude that could save mankind. Now its not saying that all Christians should be losers and always 2nd place in school or in the market. The message that we want to send out to all the people of the world is that it is all because of Christ. The very reason that I am a Purdue student with a loving family, friends, and an immense amount of things that has occurred in my life is solely because of Christ. Because of that, I will humble myself in His presence.

And thats not the end! Being humble is great and all, so lets take this even further.

The very thing that humility breeds is love itself. Christ died for our sins simply because He humbled Himself so that we may live.

He humbled Himself and loved us to the end, the very end of His life.

Just think about it. How would someone see you as when you walk with humility? When you do a favor for someone, will they see that you are doing it out of love or other reasons? and so on.

Jesus, you have shown me true love. With that, I love others and will bless your name!

Amen!