Humility (23 Sept 2007)

We were studying in 1 Peter this morning and I noticed this... "Yes all of clothe yourselves with humility, to serve one another for God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble". 1 Peter 5:5. Sometimes when we think of humility we think of a quiet person who doesn't say very much. This verse defines humility as people serving each other... pride would be the opposite... not caring for the needs of others but serving our own needs. Jesus is our prime example in everything, even humility. And yet at times we see him as a very forceful and dynamic personality, both in his teachings and his actions. Remember in the Temple when Jesus flipped over the tables of the money exchangers and drove their livestock out with a whip? Yet Jesus was humble. "Who existing in the form of God, counted not the being the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped but emptied himself, taking the form of a *servant*, being made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he *humbled* himself, becoming obedient even unto death." Philippians 2:6-9. Humility is service towards others.