Daily Lesson #1 - Humility

This weekend URBAN the church I pastor at is moving into their new location. We have been meeting in a nightclub for the past 11 weeks and it has been good but a bit on the expensive side. Recently a door opened up for us to meet in the only public school in the heart of downtown so we quickly walked through the door as it is a great move for us.

Where walking through the door was a good move the quick part I may have to rethink next time. There is so much to prepare and think about and purchase and set in place that I am filling a bit overwhelmed because event though we have a great team my wife and I are the ones alot of the leg work during the day right now. From purchasing sound equipment and lighting to making sure everything is lined up with the school it has been alot more than what two people can handle. (yes I know His grace is sufficient but...).

Today all the leg work caught up with me and I pushed the envelope with one of our amazing team members who is a volunteer. I responded to them in a way that was not a bit on the prideful and pushy side and guess where it got me? That's right it got me to daily lesson #1 humility.

I realize within a couple of hours how I must of come across to this person and so I quickly sent them an email to apologize and ask for forgiveness. To be honest I had never had this modeled for me by anyone that I had volunteered for in the past. As a matter a fact it was always quit the opposite so I found myself doing not what has been shown to me but rather something that was just the right thing to do. As I did this I was reminded of how it speaks of Jesus in the book of Philippians that we should have the same mind as Jesus and as you look at what His mind set was it was one of humility.

It was at the moment I realized that humility is not something that comes naturally to us as human beings. In fact we are very prideful by nature and we never want to admit when we are wrong. That is the cool part about this story because hey I am human (at least I think I am). It was totally against my human nature to go and ask for forgiveness and from what I have been taught especially from someone that is "Under Me". But I was compelled to do it and when I did it, it wasn't even hard for me but rather it felt very natural and real.

You see when you are truly spending time with Jesus and you are truly getting into his presence asking for forgiveness and humbling yourself is not a hard thing. It is only hard when you have not been with Jesus. The more time I spend with Him the more I want to be humble and the more I humble myself the more I want to be quick to be in right standing with people. Whatever they choose to do with it is up to them.

So today I am one step closer to living in humility and therefore living in harmony with the way He wants me to be.

Thanks for listening
Dream Big
Ben