May 6

Some people find it most difficult to be humble. They are gifted with many physical attributes and abilities that cannot go unnoticed. They are surrounded by people who look up to them with great awe because they have attained the recognition that everyone yearns, deep within himself, to have.

How can one who has attained so much through his investment of his abilities and his drive toward the achievement of financial or political or relational goals then be humble when the fruit of those goals is being reaped and enjoyed? Within himself, no successful man has the capacity to be humble.

But if his eyes are focused on Jesus, he sees an inspiring example of humility in the face of greatness! In Philippians 2:5-8 we read, “Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus, Who though He was in the form of God and knew He was equal to God, took on the likeness of men and humbled Himself to endure the shameful death of the cross.”

The Author of life, the Creator of men, allowed Himself to be delivered unto death by the men His hand had fashioned! He allowed the hands He had created to nail His hands to the cross! He endured the shame of the cross so those He loved unto death would become the recipients of His unspeakable Gift of life! To be like Him, the greatest of men among us must first share His humility.