The Way Up Is Down
Humility is seen, lived, and perfected in Christ. Humility begins with Christ, not us. Humility is not a human virtue we perfect; it is a Christ revealed reality we can receive.
Humility is seen, lived, and perfected in Christ. Humility begins with Christ, not us. Humility is not a human virtue we perfect; it is a Christ revealed reality we can receive.
If you humble yourself towards Christ, God will highly exalt you like He exalted Christ. Because Christ humbled himself, God lifted Him high.
This story was written, so we can believe, increase the level of our faith in Jesus, experienced the breaking of bondages in our life.
If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire…” (I Cor. 3: 11-15).
Scripture Reading: Exodus 13:21-22, Psalms 104:3
‘By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light.
He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.’
Someone once said, ‘the faith to pray must include the faith to believe God can give even when our prayers are lacking.’ There are all sorts of things we pray all the time and we do not necessary believe them to come to past – but yet they are prayers that get answered.
The idea is that the Christian reflects, like a mirror, the glory on which he gazes continually. It is we who are “in the glass” – a mirror – looking on Christ, the object of our affection and becoming like Him in the process of beholding.
There will be no poor among you’ states the ideal situation. This is a statement that God is giving to the church today.
Exodus 35:4-5
Philippians 4:17
2 Corinthians 9:6-8
In the three portions of scripture that we have just read:
Exodus 35:4-5 – giving for the Tabernacle (church building)
Philippians 4:17 – giving for missions
2 Corinthians 9:6-8 – the right attitude of giving: cheerful giving
Jesus is the Master story of our life. He knows the plot. He develops you through trials and triumphs. Even delays and detours are part of His chapter design.