It seems only fitting.  I begin this whole blogging thing one day and I am struck with a weight of humility that I hate knowing that I’m in such a position as to carry.  The lesson, I am to approach this God-given act with great humility.

I went to work on my lesson for tomorrow’s Bible class when I found myself stuck on the biblical location of a particular passage.  I did all my usually mind-searching, I attempted to search key words on my favorite Bible app, I looked through notes and memory verses.  Still don’t know where it is.  Frustrating.

I doubt myself.  I doubt my connection to the Father.  I doubt, I fume, I plead with the Lord.

I listen.

Humility.  It’s about humility.  In the wake of beginning a new venture for and with the Lord, I must approach the task with the utmost humility.  There is much that I don’t know, there is much to learn, there is much for which I must depend on Him and on others, there is so very much room to grow.

I don’t consider myself proud.  Who does. But I have certainly lived in the clutches of a plaguing sin area, pride in my humility. Strange combo, but my life clearly attests to it’s existence.  Pride of any sort must be laid aside.  If I am to serve, if I am to fellowship, if I am to lead, and teach, and write, and grow, pride must be laid aside.

Proverbs 11:2 – When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

Proverbs 29:23 – Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.

High goals to strive for, wisdom and honor.

I am currently working on a lesson about what it means to be a priest as we are declared to be in I Peter 2:9.  One of the things that it means is that you will be used.  You will be used to teach, to lead, to intercede, to administer the Law, to encourage; in summary, you will be poured out in any way that your great God finds of advantage for the sake of His kingdom and the advancement of His glory. To be a priest means to give up all of your life and your desires, your plans and your agenda, your possessions and your dreams.  To lay them at the altar of the Lord of all Creation to be used as He sees fit.

To be a priest means to concede that you are merely an instrument in the hands of Someone great, being only a humble tool of His bidding.

And so we begin here, with an acknowledgment of our need to humbly approach whatever task He sets our hands to.  May I serve Him with profound humility today.