Humility: A Kodak Moment

     So today in the College service at FBCO, Trace talked to us about True Humility. Now don't look down on me because this isn't the only I got from him speaking, it just stood out to me the most. In true comic fashion, Trace began to tell us about a time this week when he was hanging out with his son Baby Gray. As he watched his son struggle with a kind of "child's rubik's cube" he began to ponder about what kind of thought process his son was going through. Maybe he was thinking, "Hey dad, how about you give me a hand with this thing. It's a little over my head." or maybe just, "This looks like it would taste good." Trace then said that this led him to wonder about the thought process of Jesus when he was a baby. Here was the Son of the Most High God who had spent the previous term of eternity in heaven and now he was wrapped in a cloth diaper. And wouldn't you know it, now he's gone and pooped himself. The Son of God has just pooped himself and he can't clearly communicate with anyone around him. He now has to sit in his own mess until someone notices what is wrong. And then what? They completely undress him and expose his nekedness (Yes nekedness, not nakedness. There's a difference.) to everyone watching. Who's going to change his diaper? None other than a woman that HE created. 

Ok, let's recap and get the whole picture here:

1.) Jesus, the Son of God, has pooped himself.

2.) The Messiah, citizen of Heaven since the beginning, can only scream and cry until someone changes him.

3.) The Christ, through whom all things were made, must now bare his naked body (bottom half covered in his holiness) to one of his own creations and depend on them to clean up after himself.

    I think I one-uped Jim on this one. He may have diapered Angela's cat, 

but this is the Savior we are talking about for His sake.

     What I have just described to you can only be seen as the greatest picture of humility to ever grace this planet. So next time you think you are being an example of humility by passing on credit to someone else or talking down your contributions or talents, remember this image and remember that humility occurs by way of actions, not just words. If "holy crap" can be exemplify humility, just think of what holy love could do.