“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted .”
Luke 14 :11
Jesus was doing His ministry when He said the following words to his disciples. He told them that we need to remain humble and work as a servant if we really want to achieve high. We need to behave like a small child. Mathew 11: 11 says,” Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist.”
” And the king will answer them, “truly, I say to you ,as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” We see that Jesus blessed the person who had a child- like faith for Christ.
Mathew 25 :40
One thing which we notice in Jesus Ministry is that He always kept Himself very humble and had an attitude to serve others. He even washed His disciples’ feet and always showed His love towards them .In the garden of Gethsemane , He asked His disciples to pray but they were too sleepy to pray. We see that even when His disciples did not obey Him, He never got annoyed instead He focused on His prayers. Even on the cross He suffered all alone just to obey His father in heaven. He never blamed His disciples for leaving Him at this difficult time instead He showed love to all and blessed all .After the resurrection of Jesus ,He came to meet all his disciples and humbled Himself and showed them love .He was very polite to Peter who betrayed Him and helped Him to continue Jesus ministry on this earth.
Jesus while doing His ministry work on this earth had made 12 and 72 disciples but when Peter started his ministry he brought 3000 people in faith for Christ. So through these versus we can easily make out that Jesus wants each one of us to work for saving souls and He has promised that He would always help them till the end of this world. The only condition is that one has to be very humble and should not consider himself anything but understand properly that only God is the one who does everything. We are here to fulfill His purpose and not ours.
Another example we see is of John the Baptist who humbled himself to an extent that he asked all his disciples to follow Jesus and they left John to follow Jesus. He clearly told his disciples that Jesus is the lamb send by God Almighty on this earth to save the entire mankind. He also said that Jesus must become greater and he must become less . We see very clearly in the Bible that God has appointed each one of us with some purpose. New testament started from the event of baptism given by John the Baptist.
We all notice one thing about John the Baptist that he was very humble and told his disciples that Jesus is the lamb of God. and Jesus should increase and he should decrease . We know that after Jesus left for heaven, Holy spirit guided people and helped them to be a part of God’s kingdom. So God is everything .He only helps people to receive His salvation. We can only use our mouth and help people in coming to Christ but it is the Holy spirit which helps people to understand the verses and help them to confess their sins.
Prayer
Dear Father ,help us and teach us Your ways. Release Your blessings in our lives .Give us Your mind.Fill us with Your anointing and bless us with Your fruits of Holy Spirit. People should see Jesus in us.
Amen
Sol.Khushi