the gospel of humility

Picture Jesus on the cross.
See the darkness and hear the loud mocking shouts among the observers.
Look at his disfigured, blood-covered face.

This Jesus that you look at belongs in heaven, belongs on the throne that only the Creator of the galaxies and the Ordainer of the breath that you just took deserves.
What in the world is He doing in Jerusalem? With nails piercing Him to a cross?
The one man, who has the full right to demand attention, affection, glory, who has the full right to revel in pride and fame, is the one experiencing the most cruel form of torture known to man at that time.

See, when I think of the gospel, I think of the good news of Jesus, that I respond to in thankfulness, singing, and surrender. And rightly so. But have you ever thought of your response to the gospel being humility?

When you see the agony in his face, the blood pouring down, how great must be the filth, the sin, that demanded such a payment!
When you see that price that was paid for that filth of yours, how can you for a moment think that you have any reason to boast of your standing? Who are we to think of ourselves as anything at all, anybody admirable, as having anything worth bragging about? How dare we invite or entertain any hope that we can get some of the glory!

Charles Spurgeon summed it up when he said, "Sometimes a sinner parlays with his Savior, wishing he could have a little of the honor of his salvation, wanting to keep some favorite sin and amend the humbling terms of grace. But Jesus will be all in all, and the sinner must be nothing at all."

See the cross and be humbled.