This week we begin worship with:
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you.
This proverb is recorded also in James 4:6 and is a reflection of Proverbs 3:34. Because it is in James, and the Book of James is an anthology of the teachings of Christ, it must have been a constant message from our LORD, an example of which is the Parable of the Wedding Feast (Luke 14:7-11).
The previous verse spoke to the relationship of elder and those that they shepherd:
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
The verse starts with "Likewise" and mid-verse Peter switches to "all of you". Humility is for all of us.
Only God does not have to be humble.
That said, consider our example:
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
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