John, Good Morning.
I was at work one morning contemplating all the different opportunities for my position as cross dock manager. It is not complicated, but if you apply yourself to do a good job and consider, all the possibilities can be mentally taxing. For some reason, staffing was unusually short on this day, and Bill asked me if I would mind driving a forklift to help out a little. My answer was “Sure, be glad to.” Doing this, for me, was like riding a bicycle since I had done so much of it earlier in my life, and I realized my mind started to relax. The next thought that came to me was how easy this job was, and I started just enjoying what I was doing. I had no expectation that the Spirit was fixing to speak to me.
This is all the spirit said to me: “Condescend to men of low estate.” I often ponder whether or not I understood the Lord completely as it applied to me in that situation, but I am thankful for hearing that from Jesus, and your Blog made me want to tell about it.
I love it when the Lord does things like this because after such an experience, you would know that what Paul said is right even if it wasn’t written in the scriptures.
Wendell
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Let’s always remember where we came from.
jdc
Paul exhorted us to “condescend to men of low estate” (Rom. 12:16 KJV). But we cannot condescend to anybody as far as God condescended when He came down to help us. Nobody is as far beneath us as we are beneath God.
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Hi Pastor John,
I enjoyed reading your recent Blog about “condescending” and also Wendell’s email back to you, and have been thinking about it since then. It seems to me that to condescend to someone means that the person to whom you are condescending is “under” you in some way. It also seems to me that you cannot condescend to anyone who is over you, but only submit to their higher authority. And the Father does not submit to anyone or anything because nothing is above Him; He can only condescend to deal with any of His creation.
Thanks,
Billy
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That is right, Billy. Those are good thoughts to contemplate.
Pastor John