Are you ever tempted to exalt yourself?
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted. Luke 18:14
Almighty King,
We live in the Age of Exaltation, especially self-exaltation.
We need inversion therapy—
we need our ways of thinking and acting
to be turned upside-down
by the extraordinary news of the gospel.
You say,
“everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
but the one who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 18:14).
You sent your Son, the King of the Cosmos,
to this “humus,” this earth, as a humble servant
to save us from our self-exaltation.
He “did not count equality with God
a thing to be grasped but made himself nothing,
taking the form of a servant.
And being found in human form,
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death,
even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:6-8).
By your grace, through Christ’s death and resurrection,
raise us up to live in the humility of our now-exalted King.
In Jesus’ humble name. Amen.
Read Luke 18:9-17; Philippians 2:1-11.
