HUMBLE LIKE A SERVANT ( Part 3 CONT’D )

 In this Quiet-time series, we shall study the various characteristics of humility as exhibited by a servant. In God’s Kingdom, one who serves is positioned at the highest position and is called the greatest (Mathew 20: 27). 

 Scripture: Ecclesiastes 4: 13

“Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king, WHO WILL NO MORE BE ADMONISHED”

Ecclesiastes 4: 13

3.   When you are humble like a servant, you are willing to be trained in your work.  When you lose this humility you no longer willing to receive training

 

Some people cannot enter higher dimensions of the pastoral ministry because they cannot bend down and accept to do the things that are necessary for a change to come. They may read about what to do but pride prevents the old dog from learning new tricks.

 Many people read books and are enlightened about new and wonderful things they must experience. But to experience these wonderful things, they would need to be coached, indoctrinated, and infused with new ways, new knowledge, and new practices. This is also where people get off the train. Pride always cuts short the ministry because humility is a prerequisite for entering the doors of kingdom ministry.

 The only thing required by one master may be openness and cleanliness. While another may require punctuality. Whatever it is, if you cannot bend and be tutored in that particular area of your master’s eccentricity you will never flourish there. Pride is what makes you unable to be a trainable servant.

 I have worked with many untrainable people who eventually did not continue with me. I have encountered untrainable architects, untrainable contractors, untrainable lawyers, untrainable singers and musicians, untrainable television experts, and untrainable computer specialists…… most people feel that they are experts in their field of endeavor and would not listen to the one who was employing them and giving them something to do. Some would grumble behind their master’s backs and criticise their ideas. They were simply not servants! Their ‘ bigness’ and their pride cost them their jobs. Their inflexibility cut short their God-given opportunities and relationships with the master.

 How sad! May God help us to be servants and be adaptable and trainable.

 

Credits: Excerpts from

Formula for Humility 

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills

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