The Humble One

"He stands in who He is because of who the Father has made Him to be."

“And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.” (Mark 16:6)

I was not looking for this truth today, but in reading Mark 16 this morning, I stopped at this verse, and the Savior spoke. What He said is not what anyone would expect. Though we know He was a humble man, that He submitted Himself to the will of the Father as a man who had to walk in the Spirit, we still give Him the fullness of being God in what He knew and how He acted and reacted. He was God, He is God, but He had laid being the fullness of God aside to live as a man. Philippians 2:7 said He made Himself of “no reputation.”

I have said this in reference to His birth. An infant does not know what an adult does. He was born without any knowledge and had to be fed, had to learn to walk, to talk and to read and write. He did not have memories of who He was. We know who He is from John 1, but He had to come to realization of it.

So I’m reading this verse in Mark 16, and it was that He was humbled by His Resurrection. Not standing there filled with all the pride and arrogance of a victorious King, not even the fullness of being God that I just mentioned, but humbled that He was dead but now His Father and the Spirit of the Father had brought Him back to life. Almost as if He was any other average man.

There are things the Spirit told Him that He had to accept as a human, as a man walking in the Spirit, that He did not fully know or understand from a human’s perspective. We in the church have too much pride. Even our worship songs have so much “of the flesh” in them. We’re beating up devils, swinging swords at darkness in our own strength and conceived pride in who He is and that we’re with Him. Insert battle yell. When He is absent of pride. He stands in who He is because of who the Father has made Him to be. He said the Father was greater than Him (John 14:28), yet the Father has given Him all things (Ephesians 1:21-22;Colossians 1:16).

“Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” (Matthew 11:29)

“Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.” (John 14:10)

This image goes forward into John’s Revelation. There is this moment in Revelation 5 where only He can open the seals. That moment and the content of the seals has been misunderstood as pride, as pride of kingship, of Godhead. It is painted as the angry judgment of God, but God is not wreaking vengeance upon sinners to “get back at them.” The seals are more preplanned times. Sin has its consequences. Men and supernatural beings flip their fingers at them, but God will end death forever (Revelation 21:4). My point is, the humility of the Savior in opening the seals, since no one else is able.

Humility has no pride in it. It thinks not of itself, what it has or what it can gain, but elevates the other person, seeking to increase their worth. Though the humble one may be someone important, have knowledge no one else has, and status above others, they are what matters to Him.

“For I am absolutely convinced that God is totally on our side and nothing can separate us from his love: neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the past nor present nor future, nor any power in the universe;” (Romans 8:38, Remedy)

Food For Thought:
“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19)

• God became a man, the son of man.

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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