“HE HUMBLED HIMSELF!”

 Philippians 2:3-8                    (ESV)

“[3] Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but IN HUMILITY count others more significant than yourselves. [4] Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. [5] Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in CHRIST JESUS, [6] WHO, though HE was in the form of GOD, did not count equality with GOD a thing to be grasped, [7] but emptied HIMSELF, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. [8] And being found in human form, “HE HUMBLED HIMSELF” by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.”

How does one acquire HUMILITY?  Can you TRULY explain it to me?  The pastor of the church I attended when I was CHOSEN by ALMIGHTY GOD was probably the most HUMBLE person I ever knew, but he wasn’t the quietest person by far.  HUMILITY emanated from him seemingly effortlessly, and I didn’t recognize it until much later in life.  It wasn’t a trait that he bragged about, but in retrospect it was something that he couldn’t deny.  

The Apostle Paul was beaten numerous times, shipwrecked, and stoned presumably to death, and several other atrocities recorded in Scriptures, but he wrote in 1 Timothy 1:15-16 he writes “The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that CHRIST JESUS came into the world to save sinners, OF WHOM I AM THE FOREMOST (or CHIEF!).  But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, JESUS CHRIST might display HIS perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in HIM for eternal life.”  

SEEING the JESUS, our Savior and example, yielded HIMSELF to be HUMBLED, even though HE IS THE SON OF GOD, is almost more than I can imagine.  THE CREATOR (Colossians 1:16), “HE HUMBLED HIMSELF” “to the point of death, even death on a cross” just so my salvation would be bought!  No other sacrifice could have paid the price, “HE HUMBLED HIMSELF” because HE was our only HOPE!!!