Daily Affirmations - Day 6 - Carrying The Cross - True Humility
Day 6: True humility
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to His own advantage; rather, He made Himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
(Philippians 2:5-11).
O God, You resist the proud
and give grace to the humble.
Increase in us the virtue of true humility,
which Your only-begotten Son showed in Himself
as a pattern for the faithful,
so that we may never provoke Your anger through pride,
but may always receive the gifts of Your kindness
with humble hearts.
Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.
~ Alcuin of York, ca. 800 AD
Jesus! exalted far on high, to Whom a Name is given--
A Name surpassing every name, that's known in earth or heaven!
Before whose throne shall every knee bow down with one accord;
Before Whose throne shall every tongue confess that Thou art Lord;
Jesus, Who in the form of God, didst equal honor claim,
Yet, to redeem our guilty souls, didst stoop to death and shame!
O may that mind in us be formed which shone so bright in Thee,
An humble, meek, and lowly mind, from pride and envy free!.
May we to others stoop, and learn to emulate Thy love;
So shall we bear Thine image here, and share Thy throne above.
Amen.
~ Thomas Cotterill, pub. 1805
Source: Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church
More like the Master I would ever be,
More of His meekness, more humility;
More zeal to labor, more courage to be true,
More consecration for work He bids me do.
Take Thou my heart, I would be Thine alone;
Take Thou my heart, and make it all Thine own;
Purge me from sin, O Lord, I now implore,
Wash me and keep me Thine forevermore.
More like the Master is my daily prayer;
More strength to carry crosses I must bear;
More earnest effort to bring His kingdom in;
More of His Spirit, the wanderer to win.
More like the Master I would live and grow;
More of His love to others I would show;
More self-denial, like His in Galilee,
More like the Master I long to ever be.
~ Charles H. Gabriel, 1906
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