Humility.
I’m going to start this blog with the bold statement that we will never understand what it is like to live in complete humility. We will never know how GOD felt when He humbled himself low enough to make Himself human. But, if God practiced humility, how important do you think it is for us humans to do the same?
This month we are working with kids and babies who have been abandoned, abused or struggle with physical impairment.
As I look at one of the children who lays on a mat, skin and bones with a condition called CP, I can’t help but think “God, what is the purpose of her life?” Day and night she lays on the ground waiting to be fed or for someone to change her diaper.
If she doesn’t have the ability to talk, does she have the ability to understand and believe in a God who is bigger than the walls in which she lives inside and rarely ever goes out beyond? Has God created a life that they will never experience true happiness?
This also begs the question of “what is happiness?” These girls seem content and for the most part happy with where they are.
I think my generation is one who struggles the most with this one thanks to Facebook and the Internet giving us so many options all the time. Because we have so many options, we soon become afraid of commitment. We often push the “maybe” button on the events page on Facebook or nothing at all just incase something better comes up. We want to set ourselves up for the best possible scenario.
We do that with our lives as well. We want the best possible scenario in every situation in life. If not we are unhappy. Say we were able to get the best scenario out of every situation in life… after time, what will that do to us? I’ll tell you. It will make us prideful, ungrateful and full of entitlement.
God blesses us with so many situations in our lives that absolutely suck and brings us to our knees to bless us with the realization that we can’t do life on our own strength. When our pride is shattered and we look to our creator, our humility grows.
True happiness lies with Christ alone. Anything else will never satisfy us completely.
God gave these girls a lifestyle of humility. One that in humility they must eat from the hand of their provider. They fully depend on the care taker. The job of this care taker is one of the greatest examples of God to not only these girls but also to the staff and volunteers around them.
Don’t you see? The care takers and the CP girls are a great reflection of who we are with God. They are no different than us in their great need.
We are unable to see outside the walls of our own lives and our own experiences, so God comes in and meets us where we are at. We are fully dependent on our care taker and when we realize that and accept it, that’s where true happiness and humility develops inside us.
