Christ's Humility
Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia God ’s leadership principles are the complete opposite of man’s. Consider just one. If a man wants to go up then he goes up. If he wants to climb the corporate ladder then he climbs (often stepping on a good number of others in the process). If a man wants to sit in the most important chair at the banquet then he sits there. It’s as simple as that. But in God’s economy of glory the way up is not up; it is down. It is the one who sits in the most obscure chair in the room who may be asked to sit in the chief place ( Lk 14:7-10 ). It is the one who becomes the servant of all who will one-day be the most important in the kingdom ( Mk 10:43 ). It is not the one who practices role reversal that will be lifted up, but rather the one who submits to God’s orderly structures of authority ( 1 Pet 2:18-20 ). In God’s system the way up is down. No greater illustration of this principle exists than Jesus —who lowered