“And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not…” Jeremiah 45:5a
Humility to every believer is their greatest walk in
life. It is so easy to gain pride because pride is natural, but humility is a
gift from God. We can see the greatest humility in the men who penned the
scriptures, because they all understood that the Spirit of God gave them the
gift of writing the Holy Script. I cannot say if they knew that what they wrote
was going to become the Word of God for thousands of years. But I can promise you
this, they knew it was special because they felt it deep in their hearts. I
would have to assume that the most humbled servant of God must have been the
Apostle Paul, because he arose from one of the biggest haters of Jesus Christ
to one of the most loyal servants of Him. In his past he reaped the greatest havoc
on the Lord’s church in Jerusalem to become one of God’s greatest servants. God
used him so great, and of his greatest accomplishments he wrote anywhere from
13 to 15 books in the New Testament, while a Missionary, Pastor, and while
being imprisoned. And of all his accomplishments he wrote these humble words, “But
by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me
was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but
the grace of God which was with me.” 1 Corinthians 15:10 He never thought
of himself as anything except a very blessed servant of God. We see this same
humility in so many of God’s servants throughout the scriptures, and it should
make us very humbled in what God calls us to do. Humility begins with the
understanding that we are nothing, that every accomplishment is a blessing from
God. Greatness is not something we earn, it is God’s grace and humble servants
do not seek greatness neither do they need it, because all glory is the Lords.
The greatest man to have ever lived never seek glory for Himself, He said I
come to do my Fathers will. “I can of mine own self do nothing…because I
seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.” John
5:30. Whenever a believer that God saved, called to be a servant, and gives him
everything he needs to be successful, then God is to be the glory not him. As
servants we never need to think of ourselves more than we ought, Rom 12:3, but to humility thank God for every success.
Jeremiah knew this when “the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth.
And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.”
Jeremiah 1:9 Whatever we are,
it is by God’s grace and work, and it is not about us, and it never will be.
Never seek the Lord’s glory for thyself!
