The Humility of Christ

2 Corinthians 8:9
"For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty (humility) might become rich."

This is a scripture the Lord continues to highlight to me more and more. I think of Jesus, fully God, in heaven enjoying the ultimate pleasures of perfect fellowship with the Godhead. There is no greater joy or experience. Yet, FOR OUR SAKES, He laid aside the perfect fullness of who He was and took on sinful, weak, broken human flesh. All of the sudden God, in the Son, is confined to one physical location, He is subject and vulnerable to the earth He spoke into existence, He allows Himself to possibly catch illnesses and/or diseases. Luke 2:52 says, "And Jesus increased in wisdom..." How does God, who is Omniscient, grow in wisdom?!? Oh, the lengths He went through to have us!!! It is through His humility that there are billions who have received the gift of salvation. Through His humility, He has made billions rich. He has elevated us to a place of glory through His humility.

He gave us an example that we are to follow. As we lay aside our own agendas and selfishness and reach out to all of those around us, we are then able to participate with God in elevating them to a greater place of dignity, worth, and glory. We all seem to have two options: 1.We can live a life in which we are consumed with ourselves. We can maybe even accidentally do a decent job and manage to attain occasional temporary happiness. Or 2. We can lay aside our own agendas, so that we may participate in the higher calling of our lives, by partnering with God in bringing others, and ourselves, into our greater destiny.

I believe this is one of the many things Jesus meant when He said in Matt. 16:25, "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it." We can live a life for ourselves and hardly affect the world around us at all, or we can live our life for God and affect untold numbers of people around us. The choice is ours.