TRUE HUMILTY
Proverbs 22:4 "Humility and the fear:of the LORD bring wealth and honor and life."
HUMILTY is Christian grace in the union of highest self-respect with utter abandonment of sacrifice in service.
A person who knows his own superior worth and yet is willing to serve his inferior in Christian love is a humble man.
Genuine humility leads the strong to serve the weak.
It never underestimates it’s own worth,yet in it’s utter unselfishness it is ready to sacrifice it’s own claims at any moment for the general good.
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I love this quote, have endeavored to live by it...in highest service to the King of Glory...it speaks to me of my Jesus, the greatest example of the epitome of true humility...
I met with a verizon rep the other day... and my heart broke when he shared about his life, his beautiful family; what good people they were and what benevolent things they do...I could not help but think of the words of Jesus when He said.."depart from me, I never knew you..." chilling words from the creator and the sustainer of the universe... yet this is the future secenario for this very nice, moral, virtuous man and his precious family (yes I shared with him the message of the kingdom and salvation; I was able to sow some seed and now I pray forMichael and his family)...
...the reality is that our works are to follow a life of surrender to the King... and so I told him that it is not about religion, but about relationship...and that in this world which is just a "snap" a vapor of time we qualify with our lives our existence in eternity...eternity...eternity.....
...........................ETERNITY!!! can you touch that with your mind?
I remember seeing Kathryn Khulman for the first time... I remember her looking up into Heaven with that far away stare and say these words " I remember the very day that Kathryn Khulman died, I can tell you the very place where she died and then rose in new life..." her words stunned me, I was undone by the realization that right there is the only place where true ministry/service to God is birthed.......oh, the depth of the relationship of knowing our God...intimate revelations of His love....
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Dag Hammerskold spoke to my heart when I was 16...in his book "Markings" he shares deep moments of revelation and the knowledge of God...although different it still produced the same profound realization and relationship with God in this man's life...
"I don’t know Who—or what—put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone—or Something—and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self surrender, had a goal."... my eyes still weep when I read this 36 years later...
The Apostle Paul writes “For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, ...was not "Yes and No"; but in him it is always "Yes." For in him every one of God's promises is a "Yes." For this reason it is through him that we say the "Amen," to the glory of God.” (2 Cor. 1:19-20)
Or as the great 20th century theologian Karl Barth put, “in Jesus Christ, God puts his ‘Yes” above every person’s head.” When God became a human being like you and me in the person of Jesus the Christ, God was fully, totally, and comprehensively affirming each and every person dead or alive- or yet to come - as as special, precious, and good.
and so we find this in a summary of Dag's diary (and hopefully it will be written in all of ours too)...there is a slow invisible movement within his life, and in the late 1950s, he writes, “I finally said ‘Yes’ to God in those places within me, which were most unwilling to be transformed from a weakness into strength.” And then, right before he died in a plane crash in Rhodesia in 1961 (on a peace mission to the Congo, some say he was killed by those who profit from war), he entered these profound words in his diary: “I don’t know who or what put the question. I don’t know when or where it was put. But somewhere and sometime, I said Yes to Someone, and ever since, my life in self surrender, had a goal.” Hammerskold had crossed that invisible line of hesitations and procrastinations, from being a yeah-but to being a Yes to himself, his neighbors, his destiny, to his God.
God put a “Yes” over each one of our heads; may we have the grace, the wisdom, and the courage to say “Yes” in return. "Everyone needs something to live for, great enough to die for." D Hammerskold
"Jesus siad: I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels—a plentiful harvest of new lives. Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity. Anyone who wants to be my disciple must follow me, because my servants must be where I am. And the Father will honor anyone who serves me." John 12:24-26 (New Living Translation)
