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If you are saying finally a topic that I don’t struggle with because I am a humble person, then you might want to rethink that just a little.
The Lord always has a unique was of humbling me.
My typical and by typical I mean more than one occasion introduction is that I am a speaker for someone else.
At College of the Ozarks, I was a fill in when someone could not make it.
Most recently I got to speak at the Branson/Hollister Rotary club.
The reason I was asked is because Martin Dingman, a successful business man who makes really high end leather products could not make it.
Here is how the introduction went.
Martin Dingman, a successful business man in our community was to speak today.
He called me and said he could not be here.
So I called my friend from Rockaway Beach and asked him if he could fill in.
(They don’t say it but his schedule is always open as a fill in guy)
He said yes and so he is here today.
Before Jonathan comes I want to let you know that Martin Dingman said he could reschedule with us.
When I think I have made it and get a good invite, then the Lord has a great way of humbling me and reminding me of who He is and who I am not.
Walk Humbly is not the first reaction of the flesh.
The flesh’s first reaction is pride
Pride: A reasonable or justifiable self-respect; or improper and excessive self-esteem known as conceit or arrogance
Elwell, W. A., & Beitzel, B. J. (1988).
Pride.
In Baker encyclopedia of the Bible (Vol.
2, p. 1752).
Baker Book House.
Pride comes naturally.
It is not something you have to teach.
It is from the flesh and who we are.
I am speaking to a group of men so I am sure you are familiar with pride.
My pride comes out when someone wants to help me.
I don’t like getting help.
One Summer I was putting some HVAC ducts into an addition we built on our house and the metal caught my knee and I had to have stitches.
This put me on crutches
My wife and father in law said they were going to mow the yard.
I was not going to let this happen without me.
So I in my pride got my weed eater down and with my crutches I was trying to weed eat my yard on crutches.
In that moment I realized my pride!
I am constantly helping others but not wanting to receive help myself!
Humility:
An attitude of lowliness and obedience, grounded in the recognition of one’s status before God as his creatures
Manser, M. H. (2009).
Dictionary of Bible Themes: The Accessible and Comprehensive Tool for Topical Studies.
Martin Manser.
I have come to recognize that Pride is often insecurity masked.
Or to say it another way often insecurity causes people to appear very prideful
Think about it for a second.
If I tell you to think of someone you know who you think is very prideful, then think about whether or not you believe they are secure in who they are or insecure.
It has been my experience that some of the people who know everything there is to know about everything, that these are the most insecure people.
They don’t stop talking sometimes because if they allow others to talk then they could be wrong and they can’t handle that.
Let me show you the most humble act and individual in all of history
v1 and v2
If you are in Christ, in His love, Fellowshipping with the Spirit, any affection and MERCY
FOCUS
Think the same way, have the same love, share the same feelings, and focus on one goal
Narrow in on this!
Scripture over and over speaks of a sober mind in Christ.
Sober up your mind and get focused.
Stop letting technology cloud your thoughts
Focus in on one goal
V.3 and V.4
Humility:
Consider others as more important than yourselves
That is be interested in others thoughts, actions and ideas.
Be open to what they have to say and listen to them
Listen to your wife and your children.
Hear what they have to say.
I have had to do this working with people in poverty.
I have learned to listen to them and try to understand what they think they need verses what I think they need.
It is easy for us to be prideful and think we know more than the people we serve.
We are not the Savior.
Jesus is! Often times when I have sought to listen and understand I have learned more about Jesus through those I was serving than what I was teaching them.
v.5 Make your attitude that of Christ Jesus
v.6 he was in the form of God and yet did not consider equality with God as something to be used for His own advantage.
In Jesus’s life you see that he never uses the fact that He is Lord for his own advantage.
He never throws the boss card for his own benefit.
Jesus is serving on behalf of others
v.7 The ultimate act of Humility
He emptied himself, assumed the form of a slave, took on the likeness of man
v.8 He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death and even to death of a cross.
The most humiliating punishment was taken by the creator of the universe for our benefit
v. 9 God exalted him
v.10-11
Humility shows itself in my life when I find it necessary to apologize to my wife or children.
I battle it out.
I know I am wrong.
I know what I said should not have been said or I know that my action was wrong.
I battle this though.
I justify it out in my head 20 times.
I determine that I should not apologize.
I keep battling and then realize the right thing for me to do.
This was true recently when we were out hiking as a family.
We were in the middle of no where Arkansas.
We took the kids out for an adventure over Christmas break and went hiking.
We were out in the woods having a great time and my 13 year old said to me.
Dad I want to travel the world.
I responded with Macy I will be glad if you travel out of your bedroom.
I laughed and she responded with “hey!”
I replayed that over in my mind several times hiking out.
I thought about it on the drive home.
I rehearsed it in my head.
My child had told me she wanted to travel the World and maybe God is shaping that dream in her head to share the Gospel and I as a father trying to be funny crushed her dreams.
I thought about this for two days.
I built up the courage and went to my daughter one on one and humble myself and said to her Macy what I said about you not traveling out of your bedroom was not ok
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