Humility is the key to being a Christian helper to others.

No person can truly be a Christian helper to others or to the work of the Church, until we come to a place where we humble ourselves before those whom we ought to help. We can only be of help when we put the interests of fellow Christians first, before our own.

Then the magnificent paradox of Christianity becomes evident to us, namely that: When we die to self, we live; when we give up our life, we find it; when we abandon our pursuit of sinful pleasure, we become fulfilled.

With this attitude humility results in a journey of wonderful blessings – for those in need and for us who are called to help them.

To be humble is a gift from God. Humility is the attitude with which men, women and children turn to God in faith, for salvation. In this way only Christ will increase in our lives, and we will decrease!  And when Jesus Christ increases he works through us and his glory becomes known through his graceful work in and through our lives.

Paul says: (Philippians 2: 9 - 11) Therefore also God highly exalted him (Jesus) and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow... and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Those who choose not to humbly submit to God must know that while God still for a short time allows us to rebel against him, soon he will subject all people to his authority, when Jesus comes again. We can submit to the Lord now, or be judged by the Lord later. Either way, we will bow the knee before him who is above all and over all.

We are saved by grace through faith when we surrender to God and submit to the authority of his Word, and to Christ as his means of salvation.

Once we have truly surrendered to God, we will be prepared to give up our lives for Christ’s work and receive fulfilment in God’s will. Once we surrender, humility, preparedness and faithfulness will be the natural outcomes of the work of the Holy Spirit within us.  And our work for our Lord will be blessed.

It will be the fruit of our walk with Christ.