Moving From Humility to Exaltation
by Rev. Reid
Jacob, a ninety-year-old polish Jew and Leroy a ninety-five-year-old Black man were sitting around thinking about their past. Jacob was thinking about the beatings of Hitler in Nazi Germany, the concentration camps, and dozens of other anti-Semitic experiences. Leroy was thinking about slavery and the beatings back then and how racism exists today. They both were praying the same prayer, “Oh, Lord isn’t it true that we are your chosen people?” From heaven boomed a voice: “Yes, Jacob and Leroy, you both are my chosen people!” “Well, then” they said, “Don’t you think it’s time that you choose somebody else?”
Sometimes being chosen can seem like humiliation but what humanity intends for evil God intends for Good. No matter what happens to us God declares, not humanity, our glorification in Jesus Christ. And Jesus is our premier glorification and highest exaltation!
No matter who we or others think we are “God exalted Jesus to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in Heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
