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The Freedom of Humility
Weekly Edition #48: December 24th, 2025
Verse I Like:
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
Weekly Dose
Humility is an interesting virtue.
It’s often misunderstood as just bringing yourself to a lower place. Something that can feel counterintuitive, or even unnecessary, especially to high achievers who are wired to move forward, keeping an upward aim.
But lowering oneself is not necessarily the destination of humility. It’s the process.
It’s the intentional loosening of our grip on status, control, and self-importance. What we’re really stepping away from isn’t excellence or ambition. We step away from the need to elevate ourselves through these drives.
Humility itself is better understood as a kind of freedom. A freedom from pride.
A freedom from constantly proving, defending, or comparing. A freedom rooted in purpose and truth.
Quotes I Like:
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”
“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be—but still I am not what I once used to be.”
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”
Mane Message
Christmas is often framed as arrival. The light breaking in, hope stepping onto the stage of history. But it is just as much a story of descent. Not God arriving in strength, but God arriving in complete humanity.
Paul writes that Jesus was “born of a woman, born under the law.” That phrase is easy to pass over, but it carries weight. To be born in this manner is to be born into obligation, into rules you didn’t write, into consequences you didn’t design.
The eternal Son does not bypass the constraints of humanity. He does not exempt Himself from them, but enters into them fully.
God became mortal on purpose. He assumed the very condition that makes suffering possible. Christmas, then, is not just about God drawing near. It is about God choosing vulnerability over distance, humility over exemption.
He became everything that we are to redeem everything we are.
That reframes the season. The incarnation is not God shielding us from pain from afar. It is God stepping inside the human condition, and taking on even death itself.
We Christians serve a God who did not merely observe suffering, but was willing to experience it.
Remember that the long arc of our salvation starts with God accepting limitations He did not need to accept.
Merry Christmas!
Weekly Ponder
If Christ entered the world slowly and quietly, what does that say about how God usually works?
What is a way to progress towards and through humility so that we are free from pride?
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Onward and Upward!
