I would like to bring honor and glory, to my Father and the Father of my Savior Jesus Christ.  We examine three in turn.

            The first sign of humility is that God made man in his image.  The means God has a personality like ours only to the highest level of perfection. So God can love and hate, get angry and this is the kicker, even repent.  God is going to destroy Nineveh and he invokes the services of Jonah, a reluctant preacher, who ends up in the belly of a whale for three days and is thrown on the shore of Nineveh and because of the preaching of Jonah, a pagan nation, fasts and prays is converted.  God seeing this repents for wanting to destroy the nation of Nineveh.  The only difference between his repentance and ours is that his is a perfect repentance.  Even God repents!

            The second sign of the humility of God is that when he created the angels he made Lucifer even more beautiful than himself.  This is born out when we realize that when Lucifer turned his gaze upon himself and he wished to be God, it is then that he fell and a third of the angels in heaven fell with him.

            The third sign of the humility of God is this.  In Christ is the fullness of God.  That fullness is the fact that only in him does Father, Son, and Spirit exist.  The Father nor the Holy Spirit have the capacity to experience this fullness.  Couple this with the fact that as people made in the image of God we have the same privilege as Christ.  The Father nor the Holy Spirit can have the fullness of Christ but we as human beings can.  God has given us something greater than he who created everything has.  That is humility!

            When God tells us “humble yourself in the sight of the Lord and he will exalt you in due time,” he is not asking of us something that he himself has not done.  Furthermore Jesus Christ humbled himself even to the point of death accepting death, death on the cross, for the remission of sins.

            That God requires of us to repent, to consider others better than ourselves, or to crucify the flesh with its affections and lusts is not inconsistent with his nature and what he himself, has done. 

            Glory to God in the Highest Amen!