Off Road Disciplines Series: Humility

The life of Jesus would be marked with these two characteristics of Humility and Glory…

Jesus is on the cusp of completing His physical mission here on earth… yet in humility He’s washing feet…

Jesus modeled humility within His life, and He’s calling us to humility… Yet so much of what is called ‘ministry’ is marred by pride…

Our gospel shouldn’t carry with it this tone of, “I’m right and everyone else is wrong…” Fighting with other believers about the finer points of theology doesn’t serve us well… How we talk about the essential and non-essential of scriptures matters…

John the Baptist became smaller to fit inside Jesus’ story… Jesus story must become dominate within our lives, not our own… The Idea is that; “God defines me rather than myself defining Him”

• Mission without humility makes God’s work about us and puts us at the center…
• Humility without mission disconnects us from purpose, producing self-preserving futility… Basically were not taking anyone with us…
• Humility with mission is the John the Baptist model, serving God and pointing others to Him only…

John’s life transformed the world, but it wouldn’t of if he had made himself the central character…

• I am not all-knowing – we don’t have to know it all or have the answer for everything…

• I am not all-powerful – we would claim to trust in God for the impossible, but quietly regarding everything else as our domain…

• I am not at all places at the same time – our calendar is a good indicator of this… are we striving for a life of balance; work, ministry, family, rest, etc… we cannot be all things to all people all the time… Do we make ourselves indispensable?

We must be able to, in truth, say; “I’m sorry… I don’t know… I need you”

When we embrace the idea that we are “not Christ” we give God the opportunity to move unimpaired by our self-serving intentions…

‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him…’ If we are in Christ: We are children of God… We are called… Christ’s ambassadors…

Our lives, our interactions, our relationships, our character, our openness, our warmth, our grace, our love, our heart, our passions… who we are as those sent before Him to prepare the way for the love of God to be known in our friends and loved ones lives is a powerful tool in the Hands of an almighty God…

There is no place for pride here, or a temperament that is easily offended… But humility, because everything we have is a gift from Heaven, and we’re just stewards of those gifts…

If we can walk in the humility of knowing who God truly is and knowing who we truly are, we can walk in a life of unfettered use by the Spirit of God…

The person searching for God needs a Jesus large enough to transcend our personalities as His followers, like John, that we only prepare the way…

“The saint who is intimate with Jesus will never leave impressions of himself, but only the impression that Jesus is having unhindered way, because the last abyss of his nature has been satisfied by Jesus.”
– O. Chambers

God, in this world, has called us to a life with authority, and a mission exercised most fully with a towel…”

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