Jesus On Mount of Olives

Our theme this week is confident humility, which is the first of Asbury staff’s core behaviors. The term sounds like an oxymoron—how can a humble person be confident, or a confident person be humble? “Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.” (Numbers 12:3) Moses accomplished much. His experiences had stripped him of arrogance. Instead, he learned to rely on the Lord.

Because Jesus knew who He was, He could reach the dregs of society, play with the kids, touch unclean lepers, hang out with stinky fishermen, talk to women with a checkered past, or stoop to wash the dirty feet of His self-absorbed and competitive disciples. He was so confident and so humble that He rode a donkey down the Palm Sunday Road while the crowds cheered. He didn’t need a stallion with a military escort, like the Roman governor, Pilate. Verse 10 says, “And when he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, ‘Who is this?’” Jesus was one of a kind. He excelled because He was supremely confident and supremely humble.

Humble people have certain traits. Paul said it so well in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7: “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”