Just think of it. Where did it begin? Is there humility in heaven?
You know there is, for they cast their crowns before the throne of God and
the Lamb. But is there humility on the throne of God? Yes, what was it but
heavenly humility that made Jesus on the throne willing to say: "I will go
down to be a servant, and to die for man; I will go and live as the meek
and lowly Lamb of God?" Jesus brought humility from heaven to us. It
was humility that brought Him to earth, or He never would have come. In
accordance with this, just as Christ became a man in this divine humility,
so His whole life was marked by it. He might have chosen another form in
which to appear; He might have come in the form of a king, but He chose the
form of a servant. He made Himself of no reputation; He emptied Himself;
He chose the form of a servant. He said: "The Son of Man is not come to be
ministered unto, to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom
for many." And you know, in the last night, He took the place of a slave,
and girded Himself with a towel, and went to wash the feet of Peter and the
other disciples.
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