For Your Soul

So my Spring Break has been amazing for me so far. I got the opportunity to go to Tuscarora Inn & Conference Center with Youth For Christ and work! Yes I have been doing volunteer working pretty much half of my Spring Break and I wouldn’t change it for anything else. I was blessed and met some pretty awesome friends that really helped encourage me in my walk with Jesus. I love all you guys, you’ve really impacted my life greatly and I thank God for giving me this opportunity to meet all of you. It was just so amazing how in a few days we got so close to each other, helped each other grow in our Faith and our dependence towards God, and last but not least humbled ourselves!

Humility is something that is very vital in our walk with Christ. Humility was one of the main parts of our trip to Tuscarora, we did various projects to help out the camp and serve the guests that were there. So here is my disclaimer for this blog, just like CJ Mahaney states in his book Humility: True Greatness, “I’m a man pursing humility by the Grace of God. I need everyone of these words as much as you do”.

So why is humility so important in our lives? I think Mark 10:45 sums it up pretty well, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” It’s amazing to reflect upon the fact that Christ came to this wicked world to live as a servant who humbled himself. He who was perfect and sinless in every way (2 Corinthians 5:21), taking up our sins on his back.

So how can we strive for humility in our everyday lives? I believe the best way of doing so is simply setting ourselves and meditating on Gods Holiness and our unworthiness and sinfulness. By doing so we will be seeking for Gods dependence every single day. We will be looking for help from God to change us and mold us into a reflection of Jesus Christ. This is the essence, the beginning, and the starting point of humility. So as we are called to be imitators of God (Ephesians 5:1-2) who humbled Himself and came to this earth incarnated in Jesus and died for our sins, let us too humble ourselves in everything we do for we are called to do so(Mark 9:35).

Grace and Peace

-Kevin