The Proudness of Christ

but Christ is all, and in all. – Col 3:11

Phi 2:5-7 is the passage we usually turn to whenever we want to talk about “humility”. “Let this mind be in you”, Paul writes, “which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not a thing to be grasped to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant”

Nevertheless, when you come to think of it, if Humility is “thinking of yourself less”, how much of that can that be said of Christ?

Unlike the traditional Prophets, He didn’t say, “Thus saith the LORD”, rather He’d declare, “Verily, Verily I say unto you...”

On the Emmaus Road, He chided the two disciples for not knowing that all the Old Testament Scriptures were about Him! (Lk 24:13-25) and in Jn 5:39  He said to the Jewish leaders, “Search the scriptures  because they testify of Me”.

Not really self-effacing, is He?

Of the Holy Spirit, He said, “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father... He shall testify of me”. And again, “But when He, the Spirit of truth, is come... He shall not speak of Himself... He shall glorify me” (Jn 15:26;16:13,14). Psychologists today would see this as a clear case of egomania.

Nevertheless, true humility is not putting yourself down but placing yourself correctly. If Jesus had not stressed His pre-eminence to us, He’d have been doing us injustice. Because God’s solution for Sin is Jesus, and it would have done us no good if Jesus spoke less of Himself, or asked us to “look inward” for our deliverance.

That’s why the Holy Spirit does not talk about Himself but about Jesus. And that’s why the Father says we should “listen to Him (Jesus)”, (Lk 9:35).

We can be wrong in our theology about the Holy Spirit and still be saved, but there’s no salvation if we get it wrong with Christ. Hence, all World Religions, sincere as they may be, are leading their followers to damnation. For we can only worship God on His own terms, not ours. He has declared that He that would come to Him must come through Jesus. “For there is no other name under heaven given among men, by which we must be saved” (Act 4:12).

This is why Jesus places all the focus on Himself; and why all of scripture is about HIM, not us. Christianity is not about discovering ourselves; it’s about discovering Christ. For all that we need, in this life and in the life to come, can only be found IN HIM.

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN