Friday, January 21, 2011

God Humbles Himself?

I was reading Psalm 113 earlier today and verse 6 says, 'Who humbles Himself to behold The things that are in heaven and in the earth?' I've always loved this verse, but today it arrested me more than before.  As human beings, it seems that one of the LAST things we want to do is humble ourselves. Yet, God Himself humbles Himself! And, it's not an act that has nothing to do with us! He humbles Himself to behold (to stop & gaze or ponder) the things that are in the earth. That's us, folks! I'd have to assume from this verse that it's not JUST us, but certainly it includes us. Isn't that amazing? We should be filled with awe that He does this. How little and/or seldom do I/we really stop to consider that our God is HUMBLE? This makes me think of Psalm 144:3, 'O LORD, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You think of him?' After all, He doesn't HAVE to...He's God, very God. He could have put us here and let us fend for ourselves, ('and may the best man win!') then evaluated us at the time of our death and...frankly, what choice would He have but to put us in Hell for eternity? Who, apart from the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ could possibly EARN Heaven as their eternal home? I know some very upstanding people, yet even they couldn't earn Heaven as their eternal home. Another verse comes to mind:  Romans 3:23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Uh oh! The second word in that verse is 'ALL.' NO exceptions! In our present culture, we don't think that way, do we? Not much (to us) is all-inclusive is it, either on the positive side OR the negative side. After all, we've become of the mindset that even if a child hasn't proven himself capable of moving on to the next grade, we can't possible damage his self-esteem by holding him back. Oh, there are so many more examples, that time doesn't permit!

Anyway, since this is getting rather lengthy, let us take the time to pause, behold, the fact that our God is humble (actively, not passively) and, that being the case, should we not strive to be or do any less?

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