The lady who serves us tea, cleans and takes care of the office is the most humble person I have met this year. Every time she serves you she has this brilliant smile on her face and when you say thank you, she thinks she doesn’t deserve it. Maybe she thinks it is still not the best she could do. Something urges her to do more.
She will squeeze her tiny self to the extreme sides when she sees you coming towards her just but to give you outmost respect for the space she thinks she doesn’t fully deserve. She will avoid eye contact and it will be her pleasure to hear you need something. What if we lived as if we do not deserve the air we breathe, the love we get, the jobs we have or the wealth we so much treasure? What will be left of us to do if not praise and worship the Lord for He is worthy?
This was the kind of humility Jesus was talking about. The passion Jesus and his disciples had for the ministry was overwhelming. They had no wealth, no assets, no girlfriends, no bed to sleep, no family to come home to nor someone to cuddle them from the cold and the stiff backs they had as they took refuge in different places.
Well, it is funny how we cry that we have nothing, how the Lord has forsaken us, how business is not booming, how our assets are depreciating, how our year has been the worst forgetting that He who died for us owned nothing. He who said it is finished overlooked the need of owning a mansion to saving the one who spat on Him, the one who kicked him and shouted, ‘Crucify Him.’ Do you overlook the pain and trouble you are facing today to the very least thing God has blessed you with? Or do you wail at the top of your voice when a sting bites your little finger?