The humility of Jesus as a driving force for such a blog

Three episodes in the life of Jesus have driven millions of His followers the past two thousand years towards non-presumptuous, humble, anti-Pharisaical living, 1) the foot washing account, 2) His arrest after praying, and 3) His gory, glory-filled death. This kingdom Jesus erected was, and always will be, light-years away from any other kingdom constructed on this planet. Servants and slaves washed the feet of those who traveled the dusty roads of Palestine, surely not kings. Kings of this earth, when confronted and challenged, naturally respond with prideful self-preservation, not willing surrender. When threatened with death from our enemies, we typically take flight or fight, not sacrifice our life for those who seek to take it. But this Nazarene carpenter born in a feeding apparatus of first century animals, who loved children at the most inopportune time, who spoke to women with dignity, who sat with the despised whores and money peddlers of his day so that they could know real exhilaration and treasure, He is King. And He is definitively humble. Even now as He is sits at the right hand of God the Father, His wounds are visible, eternal, vivid reminders of a humility never to be fully duplicated, but should forever be emulated by those who carry His cross.

Incarnation as a driving force for such a blog

Incarnation is just a fancy term for God in human flesh. But it's not just a term. It's the explosion of humility and lowliness contained in the birth of Emmanuel-Jesus Christ, Lord of glory. This God-man is the Creator of all things (Colossians 1:16). He was the Rock in the wilderness (I Corinthians 10:4). He was the glory Isaiah beheld in the midst of his prophesying (John 12:41). He is the Hub of God's purposes, the securer of salvation, the source of all godly pleasure and the lamp of heaven. Yet, He came...to erect a kingdom, saw...with compassion, loved...with death, conquered...with resurrection power. David's prayer rings eternally true, "There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours" (Psalm 86:8). Reflections?

Revelation as a driving force for such a blog

That a Being wholly happy in and of Himself, completely self-sufficient, with no need of nouns of any sort, satisfied in the eternal bonds of untainted love, flawless in holiness, infinitely free and sovereign and powerful, has made Himself known to dependent, needy, unholy, enslaved, puny rebels...is overwhelmingly unostentatious. The God of heaven and earth has spoken and written to and for those who, by nature, are His objects of wrath. This is a continual mercy humanity experiences. John 14:21, "And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him." Thoughts?

The driving force for such a blog, #10

Philippians 2:5-8...

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.