"... whoever humbles himself as this child..."
Despite our levels of expertise, our experience, our maturity; despite our track record and revelatory insights, humility is what allows us to be "the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven."
Is it possible for a CEO to speak at a board meeting with humility? Is it possible for an educated person to speak to a street person ? Of course. Humility is a posture that transcends all skill, intellect, and gifted-ship. Humility, like God's Love, transcends all boundaries. It includes all, and chooses a posturing that says all things - regardless of how great they are - remain shadowed and submitted to the ever mysterious ways of the Lord.
Humility is not the casting aside of who we are. It is not the erasing of the ego, the denial of what and how we are made. Why would anyone want to tamper with the Image within?
Humility is the collective ingathering of all we are, refined in love and bowed in servitude to the Lord. Humility is a wondrous combination of bringing all you are to the plate and, once at that plate, immersing oneself in a living understanding that - at the end of the Game - it is God who is calling the shots. And you are OK with that. Indeed, you're expecting that to happen with faithfulness and gratitude. It is a joy-filled ability to completely resign your trust to his ungraspable, mysterious ways.
After all, who can know the Mind of God?
All things in their place: you, fully you; God, fully God. He, as completely reliable with a Plan; you, as a child, wide-eyed and free to be who you are - all the time fully assured of his Loving Lordship over the events in your life.
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