It's always a little bit scary to have your husband introduce you because he really
does know you warts and all so you know that was a nice introduction hey so I
thought you know because you've got both a Noblets tonight and you know we've
started in such a lovely way I thought I'd start off by telling you a true love
story who likes to love stories and so this has been going around Facebook this
true love story and it's about a dear little old lady and a little old man who are 89
years old so sadly the 89 year old woman was arrested
for shoplifting so when she went before the judge in Cincinnati he asked her
what did you steal she replied a can of peaches the judge asked her why she had
stolen a can of peaches and she replied that she was hungry obviously her
husband wasn't that great because he wasn't feeding her then the judge asked
her how many peaches were in the can and she said six so a judge said right I'm
going to give you six days in jail so before the judge could actually
pronounce her punishment the woman's husband he spoke up and asked the judge
if he could say something on his wife's behalf and the judge said okay what is it
he said husband said she also stole a
can of peas I think he thought he was on a good wicket she's going to jail for
six days so he thought he'd just upped the ante a little bit that really
that really appealed to my sense of humor so
hopefully my husband won't do that to me hey
so tonight I just want to talk about humility and its characteristic that's
you know it's a part of God's character but it's also part of what he deeply
desires for our life and you know if we really want to walk in intimacy with God
we've got to people that desire humility and you know I think sometimes
you know I know being around YWAM all these years you know we value
humility very highly but I think sometimes we can get to a point where we
see it as you know something that we do on certain occasions you know we do it
when we sin you know we get up and we humble ourselves and we confess our sins
and we should do that it's a part of you know part of God's Word - if we confess
our faults to one another pray for one another and will be healed but we don't
want to see humility as just a commodity or a thing that we do a thing that we
use to you know kind of I do that and then I've done it and voila Here I am
I am I'm humble you know but it's really a part of what God wants us to live every
day and to walk a talk after and to really grow our in it so that we become
like Christ in that and Philippians 2 is probably one of the most famous
scriptures in the Bible as it relates to humility and it's really the story it's
really a scripture about who Jesus was Philippians 2:6-11 says though
he was God he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to
instead he gave up his divine privileges he took the humble position of a slave
and was born as a human being when he appeared in human form he humbled
himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross
therefore God elevated him to the highest place of honor and gave him the
name that is above all other names the name of Jesus every knee should bow in
heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue declare
that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God Father and you know we know
that humility is not just for those times in our life we've done something
wrong because God's demonstrated incredible humility to us you know Jesus
was without sin and yet it clearly tells us that he humbled himself and he
walked that road he didn't count his privilege as as God something to be
grasped but he gave it up and he laid his life down and you know Paul really
exhorts in verse 5 of that chapter he really exhorts the Philippian church to
have that same disposition but Jesus had that disposition of humility but that
heart you know here it says he gave up his divine privileges you know he didn't
grasp at those things he didn't say okay this is my right but he actually
willingly laid down his life he chose the attitude of his servant he chose to
go from being a king to being a servant and you know when I think about the
humility of God I just get overwhelmed at times you know I think about how holy
and how perfect he is and yet he he waits for us you know and he works with
us he he calls us to higher ground he calls us to grow up in here any calls us
to forsake areas of sin and our own you know stupidity and selfishness but he he
doesn't dump all of that on us at once you know we wouldn't go to cope with it
if he did but he he takes us and he leads us gently through that process and
he has a humility to wait for us you know and I think often we don't have
that same humility that he that he has with us with one another and I think God
really want this humility become part of our life he he wants it not to be
something that we you know we see it as something that we move on on from or get
over but you know the longer that we spend with him the the greater
understanding we have that we need this in our life and we need to become like
you in this way one of my favorite definitions for humility is being known
for who you really are and that kind of comes from the idea of humility in the
New Testament the Greek word tapeinós and it really conveys this idea that we
should have a right view of ourselves before God and before others you know
we're not to think of ourselves more highly or more lowly you know we can
have um you know we can have pride in our life that exalts ourselves or the
type of pride that that causes us to think of ourselves below what God would
have us to think of ourselves and you know Paul challenges the Corinthians in
1 Corinthians 4:8-13 he says to them you think you already have
everything you need you think you're already rich but you've begun to reign
in God's kingdom without us I wish you really were beginning already to reign
for then we would be reigning with you instead I sometimes think God has put us
apostles on display like prisoners of war at the end of a Victor's parade
condemned to die we have become a spectacle to the entire world to people and
angels alike our dedication to Christ makes us look like fools but you claim
to be so wise in Christ we are weak but you are so powerful you are honored that
we are ridiculed even now we grow hungry and thirsty and we don't have enough
clothes to keep us warm we're often beaten and have no home we
work wearily with our own hands to earn earn our living
we bless those who curse us we are patient with those who abused us we
appeal gently when evil things are said about us yet we are treated like the
world's garbage like everybody's trash right up to the present moment for his
Paul you know talking about his life as an apostle and Paul is one of these
really incredible guys he there's a cup of coffee or tea right
I could have kicked that over being saved from that is good you know
Paul he has he has a really healthy view of himself you know he's the guy that
not only says things like this but he he describes himself a couple of times and
his letter to Timothy as the worst of all sinners you know and he's able to
understand hey this is who I am this is where I've come from yet this is what
God has done and that same guy who can actually acknowledge his own sinfulness
his own struggle his own wrestle is the same guy that can actually then turn
ants they imitate me as I imitate Christ you know he's the same guy who says to
the Ephesians this is our incredible God you know He loves us his love is high
wide deep la la you know long he talks about the extravagance of God and he he
really has this great healthy picture of himself you know where he knows you know
he keeps that attitude that low center of gravity where he knows you
know nothing yet he is courageous he's bold you know he's not afraid to speak
the truth because he knows that as he walks in that place of humility he walks
in the authority of God and it's the place that God wants us to come to he
wants us to come to that place where we we really recognize who we are we don't
think too highly of ourselves we don't think of ourselves lower than what God
would want us to think of ourselves CS Lewis said pride is spiritual cancer
it eats up the very possibility of love or contentment or even common sense
there is no fault which makes a man more unpopular and no fault which we are more
unconscious of in ourselves and the more we have it in ourselves the more we
dislike it in others and I think it's an incredible quote you know because pride
is such a deceptive thing you know if we think we're humble then we can
probably guarantee that we're proud you know we don't have that humility and you
know we we want to be people that that God wants to use you know and he can
work through us because of our humility and I think you know because pride is
so is so deceptive so you know a great question to ask yourself to really
examine where you're at your heart is to ask you know how do I respond to
irritations in my life you know how do I respond when someone's unkind to me you
know how do I respond when I have to wait for long periods of time you know
do I take offense easily you know am I easily angered or irritated at others
when I don't get my way you know that's really what hits at the heart of pride
in our life and shows us how humble we really are
like Paul says that scripture we bless those who curse us and we're patient
with those who abuser you know and so you know the heart of pride is a is
a heart that lives independently of God you know it's a heart that says I can do
this on my own you know I can make it I I can stand in a situation you know I'm
strong enough and I you know often with pride it creeps up on us you know it's
not something that maybe you know we walk straight to the edge of the cliff
before we know is falling over no it's often little by little those little
things in our life those little decisions that we make you know we just
move a little bit into doing it in our own strength our own capacity you know
we just become that little bit self-sufficient you know that seems
maybe not so serious but before we know it we've moved into a place of
independence from God and we've moved away from that place of humility moved
away from that place of tenderness towards God acknowledging you know I
don't have my life all together you know I'm not so crash hot as I
thought I was and you know I look at the life of Jesus and I think about humility
you know it it's a relational thing you know it's again it's not that you know God
wants to give us you know a certain way to live you know he wants to just hand
down you know this set of rules and okay now you've got it it's the three-step
plan to humility you know or it's it's the 10 steps to overcome this sin in
your life or this addiction or this problem when I have perfect
relationships you know he doesn't want that sort of you know here take it and
run off and do it on your own you know what he wants is deep intimate
relationship you know to me that's what humility is about it's about this daily
dependence upon Father God when you look at the life of Jesus this is what
he modeled for us hey you know he he walked humbly with God and he knew that
he needed the Father he didn't think okay I've got I've got it you know I'm the
son of God I can do this you know Father it's alright but no he he constantly
over and over again modeled this place of dependence I want to just give you a few
scriptures from just a couple of chapters in John things that Jesus says
John 5:19 he says the son can do nothing by himself you know incredible statement
hey it's kind of like you know baby can do nothing by themselves you know baby
can cry you know dirty it's nappy but here's Jesus saying I can do nothing by
myself incredible we know he could but he chose
that attitude John 5:30 by myself I can do nothing my
judgment is just for I seek not to please myself that Him who sent me
John 5:41 I do not accept glory from men John 6:38
I've not come to do my own will I love that I hate it and I love it if you know
what I mean if you imagine just showing up somewhere
and saying okay I'm not here to do my will what do you want you know and I was
thinking about this before I came to the meeting tonight and thinking you know
I'm probably okay with that in certain circumstances you know but maybe ask me
that on a weekend when I've had a long week and a hard week and the last thing
I want to do is with someone else wants me to do I want to do what I want to do
you know and I just love that Jesus says I've not come to do my will you know he's
come to do the will of the Father in John 7:16 my teaching is not my own you
know and I think about that in terms of the world's way of doing things you know we
want to say this is mine we want to say I did it I achieved this I got somewhere
you know today I I got a letter in the mail for my 35 year high school reunion can
you believe that 35 years one of the girls I went to high school with
actually lives here in the city even though I went to high school on the East Coast and
she sent me this letter and in it of course is the okay we even if you can't
come October 21st this is what we want from you we want to photograph and we
want what you have done since high school
you know and I was thinking about this as I was reading it tonight you know how
how's everyone feeling writing this you know because it's all about what have I
achieved what have I done you know and when you think about that that's an
attitude so often that isolates others you know it pushes others away you know
that spirit of pride would say I've achieved this I've done it I've
accomplished this you know it's basically saying I'm here you know
this is where I'm at I'm self-sufficient and it pushes others away but you know
Jesus was someone that brought people close and you can tell that by the type
of people that wanted to be around him you know the tax collectors
and the sinners you know the prostitutes you know they weren't
running away from Him they were running to him you know the very ones that everyone else
would say what have they achieved what have they done with their life they ran
to where Jesus was and now one of the things I love about the Bible is you'll
notice how it doesn't necessarily change the definition of those people you know
even when you go through like the genealogies of Jesus and things like
that it doesn't even say you know Rahab the redeemed prostitute who you
know became a woman of great virtue you know the Bible just gives her the name
as she was Rahab the prostitute you know and I love that about the Bible
but that God looks and sees who we are and he takes us and he transforms us and he
redeems us you know and he's not ashamed to be called our God he's not ashamed to
identify himself with us so when you think about the Old Testament so much
the Old Testament he says I am the God of Abraham I'm the god of Isaac on the
God of Jacob and when you look at those three guys
they weren't they weren't that fantastic let's face it you know how many of you
wants to be a Jacob you know I don't really aspire my life okay I want to be just
like Jacob you know they weren't that these fabulous incredible men of God
they grew in their relationship with God and he grew and had incredible
characteristics but you know for the God of the universe actually say you know
what I'm aligning myself with them I'm the God of Abraham I'm the God of Isaac
I'm the God of Jacob I'm the God of Marhope you know I'm the God of Dave I'm the
God of Denelle you know he aligns himself with us such humility such
humility and Jesus says this John 7:16 my teaching is not my own you know he
didn't take ownership of that but he was willing to be you know considered like a
nobody
John 7:28 I'm not here on my own authority try that tomorrow when you go
to the supermarket how about this one John 8:42 I've not come on my own God
sent me try that one at the supermarket even better you know check out check
you're there with your groceries and say to her I've not come here on my own God sent me
you know I just love that that Jesus identified himself so much with father
God and you know he knew that God had sent him he knew that he was a servant
he knew he was on the father's mission that was also his mission but he didn't
stand up and say you know what I want something for myself I want a name I
want to be honored it says in John 14:24 the words you hear are not my own and in
John 14:10 the words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority and you
know Jesus was a humble man because he was a man that lived in dependence upon
God and He daily spent time with the father
he he he took the moments but he also talked the extended times to be with
father God and now the Bible really challenges us to be people of action
when it comes to humility and in James 4 verse 10 it says humble yourselves
before the Lord and He will lift you up and so again humility is not something
that kind of just gets dropped out of the sky onto our head you know it's
something that we're called to do we are called to humble ourselves and as I said
the beginning it's not only about okay I've blown and I've sinned in this way I
need to acknowledge that you know we should do that but you know there's
plenty of things every day that bring us into a place where we can choose the
humble way the humble the humble Road and you know often that is in the
day-to-day irritation the way that people treat us what do we
notice now a couple of weeks ago I was you know I was I was in this line and
you know I had a really busy day and I just wanted to get get in this place get
out and you know do what I had to do and the person at the front of the line the
person was serving everyone was talking and they were just talking about what I
considered to be nothing very important and immediately my heart I'm thinking
could you hurry up like you know don't you know that I've
got a lot to do you know I was having this conversation in my head just
getting really irritated you know and I suddenly realized you know hey why am I
thinking this you know I've got this attitude of pride in my heart where I'm
thinking you should go on my agenda this is my day my time hurry up get with my
program you know and so often that shows us where our heart is at the midst of
the day shows us how much do we model Christlikeness you know how far we come
in our journey in humility with God and you know context for that that scripture
in Philippians is is Paul really challenging the Philippian Church and I
right before he goes on to speak about the humility of Jesus he challenges the
Philippians he says is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ
any comfort from his love any fellowship together in the spirit are your hearts
tender and compassionate they make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly
with each other loving one another and working together with one mind and
purpose don't be selfish don't try to impress others be humble thinking of
others as better than yourselves don't look at only your own interests but take
an interest in others also and you know this is the challenge for us to think of
others as better than ourselves to not expect the world
to operate on our agenda you it's really a screw to pride arrogance on our part but
Jesus modeled for us this heart of a servant this heart that would say you
know I can wait for you you know what it doesn't matter if you didn't speak very
kindly to me I'm going to overlook that you know it doesn't matter that you know
maybe you didn't notice this great story I told you know it doesn't matter I can
overlook those things and I don't have to be the one that has a last say I don't have
to be the one that always has the right answer and you know true humility
increases our hunger for God because it's it's very you know it's it's who
he is you know so as we're humble we have this incredible hunger for God we're not
walking in self-sufficiency we're not walking in that place would
say I can do this I have it you know I have it in my own strength but it
acknowledges that I need you God in the midst of that in Isaiah 57:15
says God knows the proud from afar but he dwells with him who is of a
contrite and lowly spirit and you know God's deeply attracted to humility you
know he loves it and it draws him and it draws us into that that place of
closeness with you in the midst of that and you know if we're really going to
live a life of humility you know we've got our obviously cry out to God ask God
for it you know but we also have to actively cooperate with Holy Spirit in
our day-to-day life and we have to choose a God's way the way of the Cross
in our life and there's a few things I think are really key as we do that you
know one's obviously you know being open and honest and real with those around
us actually confessing our faults we have them but you know when we're and
when we're wrong admitting it don't don't defend it you know when we we need
help to ask for it you know I think soft when
we struggle along and in our own strength in our own capacity but humility would say you know
I need you I need I need help when you don't know something say so you know if
you if you don't understand or you don't get it you know often we can you know
fluff our way along and pretend like we know what's going on you know rather
than taking the humble road and saying you know what I don't know what's going on you
know I don't know teach me tell me help me practice a life of
gratefulness and contentment you know pride is something that's never
contented never satisfied is never happy you know but as we actually become
people that look for ways we can be grateful things that we can be thankful
for you know in others things that we can thank God for it
cultivates a heart of humility in us and and I think if we're really going to
grow in the area of humility we've got to be people that pursue it you know we
can't just hope that it will fall out of heaven on us you know we can't just
hope that you know slowly we'll grow into it or that through you know only
being humble when we when were walking in areas of sin that that will grow in His
characteristic because again Jesus didn't sin and yet he deliberately and
willingly chose to Humble himself and so it's something that we have to pursue we have
to go after and about six months ago maybe a bit longer I saw this TED talk
that I loved so much I posted it on my Facebook page and I it's about this guy
who you know he's a Chinese guy at about the age of six he had this
terrible experience in school in school where he was actually quite humiliated
the teacher had designed this little exercise with the kids to kind of
encourage and build them up but as it got further
further along and there were a few kids left it actually turned into a very humiliating
experience and an experience full of rejection for him and then a number of years
later when he's about 14 apparently Bill Gates came to his town and gave this
incredible talk and he was so impressed you know he wrote a letter to his family
and he said you know by the time I'm 25 I'm going to own a company that's so
large and so successful that I'm going to buy out Microsoft you know and he
talked about it in his TED talk how you know whatever he'd done in his life
since then you know he was kind of approaching 30 and you know he realized
that he hadn't started this incredible company you know he hadn't done what he
said he would do as this 14-year old and he started to think about he thought you
know everything I've ever done today you know whether it's giving a pitch for my
company you know where he worked or know whether it was to do with relationships
or whatever he said whenever he went to do something there was two voices that
that that were there was the voice of or memories you know the memory of this
this six year old who was humiliated and rejected and then this memory of this 14
year old who was like yeah I'm going to take on the world and he said every time I went
to do something the six-year-old won the rejection won out and so he decided you
know here was I think both homes about 30 and he had actually started his own
company but he really really really wanted to overcome rejection in his life
so he googled you know how to overcome rejection and he found all these things
you know his all these dumb self-help help things like you know just don't
take it personally don't do this don't do that and he said finally he came
across this site by a Canadian guy called rejectiontherapy.com and at the
concept of this whole website was that for 30 days you would willingly put
yourself in a place of being rejected and at the end of 30 days you'd be
anaesthetised and you'd no longer feel rejection so
this guy thought right I'm going to go one better so he decided to set himself
a hundred day challenge okay and he decided he would you would make a vlog
and he would film himself in these different challenges every day and then
you know part of what he thought with that is you know he could he could use
it to help others and become very rich was one of the things he thought but he
also because he's not a Christian but he also thought you know I can watch it and I
can learn from it so day one he he goes and he thinks okay I'll I'll try and ask someone
can I borrow a hundred dollars and he's like I'm really freaking out my palms
are sweaty and you know I go to this guy and say look can you can you lend me a
hundred dollars you know he said I'm just like panicking the guy says no I'm
not lending you a hundred dollars you know why do you want a hundred dollars
you know and he said I was so petrified I kind of almost ran in the other direction
from being so so silly to try and do this he said but I filmed it so that
night I watched the video it's as I watched the video I realized that I
looked terrified and actually the other guy didn't look that scary at all and so
day one his lesson he decided from that day was whatever you do don't run away
so the next day he decided to go into a fast-food restaurant and asked for a
burger refill so he you know with his background I'm not going to run away so
he goes in and he goes to the counter he goes I want a burger refill okay what
what's a burger refill he goes well you know like when you come back and get a
drink refill I want a burger refill guys we don't do burger refills and so he thought
don't run away don't run away and then he said well you know I really like this
restaurant I really like your burgers he said if you had a burger refill I'd come
here more often and the guy behind the counter said right
well I'll tell my manager so you know no burger refill he said he
doesn't think that restaurants ever you know initiated burger refills but at
least he didn't run away so he said day three was a major
breakthrough for him he set himself a challenge of trying to get Donuts in the
shape of Olympic rings so he went to Krispy Kreme yay
Krispy Kreme right YWAMers? so he went to Krispy Kreme and he said I went with
this great conference I went up and I said could you make me Donuts in the
shape of the Olympic ring and the girl said well what are they like and so all
of you had this girl was actually willing to hear him and she drew pictures and
he said fifteen minutes later I walked out of that store with donuts shaped in
the Olympic rings and so he basically of these 100 days videoed himself and
you know he kept going back and going what can I learn he said one of the
things he learned from this was you know the whole thing of not running away but
also you said you know often we quit too quickly you know said and he learned
that if you asked why it was incredible so one day he decided like I'm going to
try and get someone I'm going to take a client I'm going to go and knock on a
rounded or I'm going to try and get this person to let me plant this plant in
their backyard so he's you know he's deliberately looking for like rejection
but how to overcome it and to succeed and so he goes to this guy's door and he
knocks on door he says can I plant this plant in your backyard and the guy goes no you can't
he said well why and the guy said well I've got a dog and he'll dig it up but
he said you know Connie across the road she loves flowers and I reckon if you go
and ask her she'll let you plant it in her yard he said sure enough I went
across the road and said the guy across the road said this and she let me plant
it in her yard and you know he did all sorts of crazy things and I was just so
taken by this but this guy you know rather than looking
at his life and continuing to live in rejection he actually said you know what
I'm going to take it on I'm going to be someone that acts on this whole place of
rejection I'm not going to let it overcome me but I'm actually going to
face it head-on and you know as I was thinking about I was thinking about that
with humility you know sometimes we run from it
and sometimes we're like okay I got to sort of take it like my medicine and
drink it down and do it quick you know if I've blown it in some way or I failed
in some way but you know when I look at the life of Jesus he you know again it
wasn't he didn't sin but he actually often chose the road of humility he
often chose that place where he didn't have to have the last say he didn't have to
have all the answers you know notice that when people came to him with
questions he he could have just answered them but often he said he asked them
another question he took that place of not being the one that could say I've
answered everything for you but hey what are you doing about this you know so he
took this place of humility and this place in his life where he he confronted
those things you know he confronted even the irritations you know of things like
the Pharisees and Sadducees but he didn't become angry or you know
irritated with them more often he was grieved at their attitude but he didn't respond
in pride and arrogance he responded incredible humility you know you know
when I was when I was a teenager Mother Teresa came to Australia and
she's one of these people I think it's just incredible incredibly humble person
and you know I went with my mom and some others you know stood in the streets of
Melbourne you know hoping to get a glimpse of this lady and I was very
privileged because she actually came right past me and shook my hand and and
I know Dr. Pant is here tonight and I know he actually knew her personally so
I've met her and worked with but for me as a 16 year old this was just incredible
to actually get to shake her hand and as two things that stood out to me about
her at that time and the first one was how small physically in stature that she was
you know how physically weak you know in the eyes of the world that she
was and and what what incredible humility she must have had to be able to
actually take on what God had for just in a physical disposition in caring for
the poor and the other thing that stood out to me about her was her actual hands
you know her hands they they weren't rough they're very gentle but they
weren't soft squishy office work hands they were like workers hands you know
physical labor type hands you could tell that she wasn't somebody that sat in an
office and commanded these sisters to do this and that you know but no she was
somebody that actually you know cared for the poorest of the poor and you know
this week when I was preparing this I came across a you know some stuff I get
sent weekly I came across this article on Mother Teresa's 15 guidelines for
creating humility and so I just want to read those to you she says speak as
little as possible about yourself keep busy with your own affairs and not those
of others so it's just you know the whole thing of not going outside of your reach avoid
curiosity don't interfere in the affairs of others kind of a repetitious thing
there so it says something accept small irritations with good humor so not just
accept them but accept them with good humor do not dwell on the faults of
others accept censures even if unmerited and censures are just strong disapproval
or criticism give in to the will of others accept insults and injuries
accept contempt being forgotten and disregarded be courteous and delicate
even when provoked by someone that's a real challenge hey do not seek to be
admired and loved do not protect yourself behind your own dignity or your
own reputation give in in discussions even when you're right and choose always
the more difficult task and you know just think she's such an example of
someone that lived those things in her life and you know Jesus was someone that
really yielded to the will of the Father and when I think about this list I think
that it just speaks to the person that's yielded internally it's easy and pride
to say we yield to God but we you know we don't want to yield to others again
there's something about that place of humility in our life and you know Andrew
Murray said Christ is the humility of God embodied in human nature eternal
love humbling itself clothing itself in the garb of meekness and gentleness to
win and serve and save us I'll read that again
Christ is the humility of God embodied in human nature eternal love humbling
itself clothing itself in the garb of meekness and gentleness to win and serve
and save us I know Jesus humility is what changed the world and I think if
you know if we really take up the challenge see people that are hungry and
go after humility in our life and you know act upon it you know very
consciously through through the grace of Holy Spirit we can't do it in our own
capacity but through the grace of the high sphere accept those irritations in
our day-to-day life and allow them to shape us allow them to bring us to a
place where we have you know a clear understanding of who we are and who God
is and I think we also are going to change the world and so I
felt like I was saying for us tonight you know just to really be people that
are hungry for humility that we we don't see it as something we maybe rush out
snatch and grab you know and then think I've done my beer but no we seek to live
daily you know with it with the right understanding of ourselves and that we
treat others better than ourselves you know we we treat them as Jesus would
have us to treat them and so I just as as as Dave comes up you know just I just
want to pray for us you know to really pray that God would God would show us
our heart you know that we'd be willing to look inside and see you know those
places where we've allowed maybe even just things that we sort of small to you
know actually cause us to step away from that place of dependence upon God and
you know really is a place of a slippery slope into areas of pride in our life
and would rob us from true humility so Jesus want to thank you tonight for
example I want to thank you that you're incredibly humble that you didn't
consider your equality with God something to hang on to to grasp that
you didn't walk around with footed as Grace's said I deserve this
others should operate on my time train my schedule you know the world revolves
around me but you came and you said I'm here to survive here to do someone
else's will I'm here to lay down my life and but I just pray that our where
there's blindness in our life guiding areas of pride that you'd open our eyes
to those things that you would use those irritations in our day-to-day life you'd
use even the time for maybe others are unkind to us where they offend us Lord
to show us that the humble person is understandable the humble person easily
overlooked faults the humble person takes the high road the highway and
doesn't satisfy its own desires but willingly
yields gives up and they sense life hope rated work in our hearts to just bring
us this place we recognize God how completely utterly totally dependent
upon you that we are that we wouldn't think to do things in our own strength
own capacity even good things things for you but God will be people that take
your hand and I'll follow you got to follow you you know day to day life and
just walk that life is dependent push you you're just really asking for this
Jesus
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