Chapter 5- Humility in the Disciples of Jesus

CHAPTER FIVE

HUMILITY IN THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS

“The greatest among you should be like the youngest,

and the one who rules like the one who serves.”

– Luke 22:26, pg 44

My spiritual life

Prior to reading this chapter, I had never considered how humility is manifest in me only because of Pentecost. It makes sense to me now, how the disciples could be so committed to Jesus, yet at times, lacking in such profoundly basic ways.

“Nothing works but this: that the new nature in its divine humility be revealed in power to take the place of the old- to become our true nature.” -Pg. 47

I find myself still before the Lord, longing for the fullness of humility to be manifest in me. Helpless to help myself. Just longing and waiting.

Leadership within CC

As a director, I am moved to lead with the heart of this passage:

Let us consider how far the disciples were advanced while this grace was still lacking, and let us pray that other gifts may not so satisfy us that we never grasp the fact that the absence of humility is no doubt the reason why the power of God cannot do its might work. It is only where we, like the Son, truly know and show that we can do nothing of ourselves that God will do everything.” – pg 49

 I have nothing to offer outside my Lord.

Literature

I’m fixated on farmers right now. In reading books like “Animal, Vegetable Miracle” and “Hannah Coulter” and “Whole” and “Vegetable Literacy”, I’m struck by the necessary humility of the farmer. A farmer has plenty of variables s/he can control (many related to the development of good soil), but at the end of the day, the farmer is dependent on the climate- sun and water, which are variables the farmer cannot control, and without proper respect for them, his crop and whole life withers.