Humility

The call of Christ is a call to humility.  Many of you might find that a funny comment coming from me given some of my past attitudes and interactions, but I think it true.  It is impossible to read about Jesus without sensing the base humility of God. It is a base principal of theology, and it's a bit of a "rompa cabeza" (head breaker or puzzle) for us to think of an all-knowing, all-powerful God acting in any way humble. If there was ever a being who had the right to lord greatness over us, it'd be God. But there is something in the essence of God's being that bends toward humility, which is of course exemplified in the person of Christ. God pours out God's self, and so we find ourselves in the precarious position of wanting what we want but being compelled by God to put others first. It's all painfully foreign;We have to admit that there is a whole world/kingdom of things going on that we don't know everything about, a whole way of life that we have to learn.  And we have much to learn if we're to live "the spiritual life."