Humble! Humble! Humble!

I started this blog not too long ago, and titled it Becoming Humble, because God was humbling me more and more. Somewhere along the way I had forgotten about how God had showed me so much this past summer in Guatemala, and how he was showing me that I needed to be more humble.
It all started when I was asked to help out at one of our worship services at Trinity Baptist College. I was excited to see that I got a Facebook message from the leader of that worship team; until I read the message. This is where my pride kicked in. He asked me to play the sleigh bells at the Christmas service they were having. As a fellow worship leader, guitarist, and drummer, I was quite offended. Now don't get me wrong, he was not by any means insulting me, that was just what I felt. Actually as a freshmen being offered any chance to help in a worship service I was an idiot for not replying to that message. Now instead of truly being upset or offended; I started making jokes about it with others. Pretty much everyone joked around with me about it, but some kinda woke me up.
When I was telling two of my closest friends at Trinity, they were laughing about it with me, but at the same time saying that I need to be more humble. Since we were laughing and joking about it I didn't take it seriously and just moved on with life. When I got home for break, one of the first things my parents asked me was, "are you involved in music up there yet?". I told them about how auditions went and then I told them about the only opportunity I got, since the auditions, was a chance to play sleigh bells. Once again I joked about it with them and they made fun of me (as usual), but my dad made sure I knew that I need to work on being humble. Again someone had corrected me on what I was saying and feeling, but I ignored it because I honestly thought I was humble. When you think of yourself as humble, that's a good indication that you should probably work on being more humble.
I was invited to go on a weekend mens retreat. The focus was meditation on the bible, and we did a few workshops on that. The start of the weekend we just focused on preparing our hearts for what God was going to show us, by giving all our distractions to Him. I was truly prepared for what God had to show me that weekend; which is good, because I was going to need an open mind for this one. The guy who was leading the retreat had given us a few options on passages to meditate on. I chose Phillipians 2:1-13. So I got into a nice secluded spot by the pond, and I opened up my bible to the passage I selected. The title of that section was Imitating Christ's Humility. Ouch! I knew what God wanted to show me that weekend immediately. I actually almost decided to do another passage, but I didn't because I wanted to have change that weekend.
I began reading it, and used the techniques they had taught us for meditating on the Word. After reading it a second time, out loud, I suddenly started seeing what Paul was saying in this passage. All of a sudden, all the instructions of being more humble became very life aplicable to my life. As I continued on I realized how humble Jesus really was. The Son of God humbled himself as a servent and came down to earth, to die for us.... To die for me! Little ole me, who is too prideful to even realize that I need to work on being more humble. Someone who wouldn't play stinking sleigh bells because I thought I was to good for that. Who do I think I am?! I should be burning in hell because of my sin, but the creator of the Universe died for me, who isn't even worthy to call on His name. If I am to even consider myself a Christian, how can I not be humble? How can I think of myself as any better than anyone else? If I am to be a "Christian", which specifically means little Christ, I HAVE to be more humble.
You see, we often forget about how unworthy we are to even be living, and not burning in hell; all because the most powerful being who decided to be humble. Lets try and practice being as humble as Christ, and lets see how we change this world. Philipians 2:13 tells us that God can use anything for his purpose; meaning that God could have used me by playing sleigh bells, for His glory. If we humble ourselves and are open to do anything that God calls us to do we will change this world. BE HUMBLE!