Thoughts

Another feature of humility is when someone is not so much occupied with himself, but thinks more of others and their needs...

Christ's lowly mind is also seen in the contacts that He had with people. Many times we find Him in touch with poor people and with those who were despised and cast out from the jewish society...

The lowliness and humility of Christ also became visible in the different stages of His life. We should never forget that He was the eternal Son of God who willingly chose all the stations of His earthly life...

That was the mind of Christ: To give up things and to descent lower and lower. He layed aside His outward glory, He made Himself nothing, He took the form of a bondman and became lower than the angels...

It is God’s intention that we become more and more conformed to the image of His Son. We have received the life of Christ and now this life should become visible through us...

The constant realization that we have nothing that we did not receive delivers us from boasting and self-congratulation...

Everyone of us has a subtle desire for numbers and a tendency to judge success by statistics...

It is useless to give offerings to God while you are at enmity with your brother...

To esteem others better than self is unnatural; fallen human nature rebels at such a blow to its ego...

Would you resemble Jesus? Then study Him closely, study Him constantly. Study not faint, imperfect copies, but study the Divine-human Original...