Humility is Beautiful

Isn’t it a beautiful thing when somebody humbles themselves in order to serve another? I mean, how about a teacher who helps a student, not only with their education, but with their life? Or a man who takes it upon himself, at personal cost, to start an orphanage for the poor? Or a nurse who willingly puts herself in harms way to love and serve her patients from disease and death? Don’t you agree that humbly serving others is beautiful?

Now consider the Lord Jesus Christ who in John 13 washed the disciples’ feet, including Judas Iscariot, who would later betray Him. And yet, here is Jesus, graciously and kindly washing and wiping their filthy dirty feet, all to teach them a lesson. In verses 34 and 35, He says, “A new commandment I give to you, that you should love one another, just as I have loved you… by this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” Now let me ask you this. How beautiful would it be, if a whole community, a church for example, humbly loved and served one another like that? My guess is that love like that would be too beautiful to be ignored.  It would demand the response of a watching and skeptical world.

Something to think about from the Proclamation point of view.