The High Points of Lowliness by Emily

I recently went on a road trip across the country.

It started out as an adventure of sorts.

But--of course-- it always turns to more as the Lord does His Work.

We slept in that car, we ate in that car, we drove long hours. Stopped in parking lots and rest areas, wherever we could find a place to spend the night.

It dealt with my pride.

Here I was, around these people going here, there and everywhere.

People with fancy cars, nice outfits, they would watch us like we were homeless country hicks.

But it hit the hardest when an older man in a grey van came up to our car in a Walmart parking lot one evening as we had all our totes and blankets laid out to get set up for the night.

“Sleeping in your car too, huh? I know how that is. I’m pretty tired of it. I miss sleeping on a real mattress.”

I wanted to tell him that it wasn’t like that for us.

That we had chosen it, we weren’t in the same position as he was.

We weren’t “homeless.”

But that’s not what it was about.

“He made Himself a man of no reputation.”

My sister quoted that verse the next morning, and it rang in my ears the rest of the trip.

We always want to make a reputation of our selves.

We are “tough”, “capable” “smart” “strong” “rich”….fill in the blank.

While “He made Himself a man of no reputation”.

But that’s not where He stopped:

“...and took upon Him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of man.”

Jesus humbled Himself to become a man.

Not a wealthy man, not a handsome man, not a man of great man.

Just...a man. Jesus just took on the form of a man.

One that could reach us, our infirmities, and our wounds. One that could be touched by our pain, that wept for our sorrows, whose heart broke for us.

“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” Isaiah‬ ‭53‬:‭5‬ ‭KJV‬‬

It doesn’t matter who we think we need to be, or who the world thinks we should look like or act, when we are His.

It doesn’t matter what car we drive, how much money we have, what clothes we wear, when we are His.

It doesn’t matter how we are esteemed or brought low, when we are His.

In the joys and in the sorrows, we can be His.

“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.”

‭‭James‬ ‭4‬:‭10‬ ‭KJV‬‬