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Apostle Peter warns all the servants of God to cling to the humility and to be guarded of haughtiness. God resists the proud, but He helps those who know that they need Him. That these two characteristics are found in a human being is not a contradiction.

In an example from the story of the king of Judah (2 Chronicle 26). We read when and how God reacted with his servant-leader of the people. The king Uzziah did what the Lord liked in his younger years, and as long as he sought the Lord, God let him be successful. He tore down walls, built new cities, employed farmers and wine-growers, had a warlike army with three hundred and fifty thousand men.  He was famous for his war machines.

When he became powerful, his heart became overbearing and he acted wrongly, he was unfaithful to the Lord, his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to sacrifice on the sacrificial altar, that was permitted only to the consecrated priest of the Lord “the son of Aaron”, and when they refused him to do this, Uzziah was angry, upon his brow a leprosy broke out: the master had struck him, so he had to live in a separate house until his death.

In the new testament Jesus went to a mountain and taught the people in the presence of His disciples. It is the beatitudes Matthew 5.  For the reader a happy way to humility that this language of Jesus tells us. Possessed with pride we would have no chance; then His words would pass us, like the rain in a window.

Jesus teachings contains the fullness of our life and our service.  It is only in the Spirit of God that our present and future spiritual condition is revealed to us, as in the process of sowing and harvest: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven,” it is said in various French translations; or “happy who know how poor they are before God” for hope for all. Even in His first beatitude, we realize how keenly Jesus mirrors the image of humility. We are called to think in spiritual awareness about our own situation.

Through the sermon (Matthew 5 to 7) Jesus gives us a picture of His community with the characteristics and tasks of its members. Do we fit in that picture?

Do we understand our service and its work field?

Let us adapt to this image of our ministry in the church “not only on Sunday in the church”, we should remember the process of sowing and harvesting: “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.”  This process is connected with love, love to our Lord and our neighbour. In the spirit of John 21, 15-17.

Furthermore, Apostle Peter names the appropriate tools with their instructions for use:

• All your sorrows upon Him; because He cares for you.
• Be careful and watch; for your adversary, the devil walks about like a roaring lion and seeks whom he may devour.
• Resist firmly the devils ways, and know that the same sufferings are with your brothers and sisters all over the world.

Be in union with our sisters and brothers who live in persecution, because they believe in Christ, let us pray and close them in our heart: God will protect them, bless them, free them.

“The God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.  We can never be thankful enough for God’s Holy Scripture and the manifestation of His salvation. He teaches us wonderfully “to Him be the power of eternity to eternity.”