HOF ramped it up, last July 11th with ‘Dress up or Dress down.’ But more than our wardrobe, was the importance of our own spiritual wardrobe…are we spiritually dressed up, or dressed down in God’s sight?
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.
Jesus came for two purposes: To represent the Faithful God, the God whose face was smitten because of another god and to present us to the Father as the redeemed unfaithful lovers.
If you humble yourself towards Christ, God will highly exalt you like He exalted Christ. Because Christ humbled himself, God lifted Him high.
There are moments when God calls us to work, to serve, to labor quietly — even when no one notices. There are also moments when He allows testing — not to crush us, but to complete us.
In our life, we face oppression of every kind as defined and described above. But behind our oppression are the spirits of the same oppressors who oppressed Israel in the past.
Each “El” name is a different well, but all flow from the same Living Water – Jesus Christ, the fullness of God’s revelation.