Humility

It never ceases to amaze me how well my Father knows me.  He knows exactly what I need to hear, exactly when I need to hear it.  Of course He does...I'm His...he formed me before anyone even knew I would exist.  He knows the workings of my mind...the ones I wouldn't even let my closest loves know...the weaknesses and the places I struggle...the many places that I fall short.  Yet He loves me and pursues me anyway.   He loves me enough to put His words in front of me at the moment when I need them most.  

I need a message of humility today.  I need to remember that all things good come from Him.  I needed to be reminded that I'm not the savior...He is.  Anything that I accomplish is because of Him...because of His grace.  In reading my devotion today...which I haven't done in a month and a week... He beautifully painted a picture of His humble example. The Father of creation humbly sent His only son to come to earth and live among men.  He came not as an earthly king, but as a teacher...as a servant...He looked for ways to serve the least of these...and He did it in a way that illustrates the true heart of Christ.  Paul's letter to the Philippians so eloquently spoke of Christ's example of humility.  Paul speaks of how through love and the Holy Spirit that dwells within us that we should do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit.  In humility we should count others more significant than ourselves.  In verses 2:5-8 Paul writes, "have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.  And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross."

Just reading these words again as I write this blog humbles me.  So many things about that passage pierce my soul.  He is the son of God...SON.OF.GOD...yet when he took on human form and he came as a servant.  He.came.to.serve!  He didn't come to be served.  He wasn't selfish...he wasn't out for personal gain...he didn't tell everyone how amazing he was...he made sure everyone knew how amazing his Father was.  He knew his purpose for his Father and he did whatever it took...to the point of death...to fulfill that purpose.  

So yeah...microphone dropped.  

Who am I...

I am a wife...I am a momma...I am a daughter...granddaughter...niece...sister...friend...nurse...BUT no matter any of these titles I am a daughter of The King.  

I say that with the desire to have humility...not self righteousness...not entitlement but true humility.  He loves me.  He loves me however many times I don't make the right choice...however many times I lose my way because I am not focused on Him.  

I have been talking lately a lot about the struggle being real but you know what...it's really not.  I am His...He is capable of immeasurably more than all I could ask or imagine...the end...there's no struggle there...just a whole lot of love, truth, and grace...abundant grace.  

Thank you Lord for that simple and overwhelming truth.  You are a GOOD GOOD FATHER!

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