![]() ![]() But at present, we will attend to the role of humility in the divine life. including the way that it frames our understanding of the relationships between husbands and wives in Ephesians 5. There is much to be said about humility in this passage. Perhaps there is more to be said about God’s humility.ĥ Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,Ħ who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,ħ but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.Ĩ And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.ĩ Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,ġ0 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,ġ1 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ![]() As the Creator, he does not fall within our ranking system-he is the standard, the measure, by which any and all ranking is properly done. But are we to be humble as God is humble? Of course not, you might say-God isn’t humble, he is Lord of Creation! How could he be humble? And if being humble is a matter of properly seeing one’s status within a pecking order, seeing oneself as lower down than others on the ladder of skill, virtue, command or worth, then of course God cannot be humble. We are to be holy as God is holy (Leviticus 19:2 1 Peter 15-16).
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