Many of us
today fall in the trap of believing that humility is an act than an attitude of
the heart. When someone talks softly and slowly, we define them as humble but
it’s actually a state of the heart. When I talk of the heart, I don’t mean the
physical heart; what I mean is the state of the mind. Don’t think the reason why I’m talking about why someone wants to put up an act is my concern.
Nope! Humility comes through the knowledge we have of Jesus Christ; His person and
finished works. The more you see yourself in Him the more you understand you cannot compete with another brethren because you are both unique in Him; distinguished in every way by the Grace of God. I will explain how humility is
defined in Christ alone.
Our
placement/position in Christ as sons: When Jesus was made incarnate as man, He
was the substitute for mankind. He was the God-man; truly God and truly man in
Himself (Hebrews 2:16). With humanity in Him, He was crucified, He died, was
buried and after three days He rose from the dead, still with mankind in Him and
as Him, thus making us new creatures in Himself (2 Corinthians 5:17). He ascended
on High and is seated at the right hand of the Father with us and as us. We are
seated with Christ in the heavenly realm. In Him we derived a new origin, and
we have now been born of God (1 Corinthians 15:45). He has become our Father
and we are His sons through Christ and we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit who cries
Abba Father bearing witness with our spirits that we are sons of God (Romans
8:14-15). We are called sons of God because our unique origin which stems
directly from the Father in Christ Jesus has become our unique identity. All
that we are and will ever be is in Christ, He is our life(Colossians 3:3-4); He has made
us worthy, holy, righteous, blessed, happy, peaceful etc in Himself. We did
nothing to be all that we are in Him and nothing is required of us to complete
anything because He finished His work and made us beneficiaries of it all. We don’t
need to work to earn the love of God because He purposed in himself that we
should share in His life through His only begotten Son Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:3-10, Colossians 2:9-10). What assures
us of our safety, security and preservation is because we are found in our Eternal Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and we need to live daily, seeing
ourselves in Him (Galatians 2:20, Colossians 1:9-20). No matter our challenges
in life our placement in Him stands forever.
Our
possession of what is His: Because we are joint-heirs together with Christ, we
are possessors of all that is His. Having been made beneficiaries of the
finished works of Christ, we have been enriched with His
righteousness, wisdom, knowledge, understanding etc (1 Corinthians 1:30, 1 Corinthians
2:16). Now having the mind of Christ, we can think His thoughts and speak His
words for the growth and edification of the church; which is His Body. He is the creator
of all things seen and unseen, big and small, and we have been endowed with industrious
and creative ideas in Him. We have inner peace because we trust in our savior
Jesus Christ and we know and are confident that He is able to succour us at all
times. We are presented as blameless and sinless before the Father because we are in
Christ and He sanctified us and made us His abode. Because our riches originate from an Eternal Source which is Jesus Christ, we’ll never lack; He is Lord
and reigns forever. We have been made partakers of the richest economy that
exists from eternity, an economy that knows only abundance and excess. In this economy, we have been given all things abundantly
in every sphere of life; health, life, wealth, assurance, redemption, peace,
joy, love and because our location is in a person who is Christ Jesus (Acts
17:28, Colossians 3:3) we possess all that He possesses.The Grace is awesome!
Beloved in
the Lord, the things we see cannot define us, we can never boast about class
because we have become royalty in Jesus who is the king of Kings and Lord of Lords (Ephesians
1:20-22), you can not boast about race because in Christ we are the new
creation; a unique race that has never existed before the resurrection of
Christ. We are the perfect and most superior race ever in Christ; God never
dwelt in any man before the coming of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16, 1
Corinthians 6:19, 2 Corinthians 6:16, 2 Timothy 1:14, Romans 8: 11, 1 john 2:27,
Acts17:28 ). You cannot boast about riches; we have been made co-heirs together with
Christ. Our riches go beyond material possession, it contains life and
longevity in Christ (1 Corinthians 15: 40-57), Health (1 Peter 2:24), peace
(John 14:27, 2 Thessalonians 3:16), Joy (Romans 14:17) etc. The Apostle Paul
was a Roman citizen who had studied with great teachers of his day and was a
man who could do and undo not only in his city but in other cities (Acts
22:25-28, Acts 9:1-2). Amidst his class, wealth, position and all, he considered
them dung and garbage for the “Excellency” of the knowledge of Christ
(Philippians 3:7-10) Man has nothing to boast about but the benefits of all
that Jesus Christ accomplished for mankind. We can never maintain what we didn’t
earn and so only Christ has the power to sustain our lives along with all the
wonderful things He accomplished for us. We are blessed and privileged to
belong to God in Christ (Acts 17:28, Romans 1:16-17).
You are Blessed!!!
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