Thursday, August 20, 2009

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.

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