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(Countdown to Christmas!) “And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.” Luke 2:8 Greetings! Jesus humbled Himself to become a human being, and one of the first events in His life on earth involved some of society's most humble folks: shepherds. What does that tell you about who we should be interacting with in our lives? Do we only associate with people like us? Or do we show God's love to the less fortunate? Today's Must See Videos Featured Video Watch This Patience Feline Get Along with a Pesky Parakeet! It COULD just lose its patience and have the pecking parakeet for lunch… ! But instead, the long-suffering cat just tolerates the ... Impossible! Window Washer Falls 47 Stories and Lives! Truly a Miracle! The ER doctor said, “If you believe in miracles this would be one…” IF?? Alcides Moreno, 37, and his brother, Edgar, were ... From Birth To 12, You Won't Believe Your Eyes! Precious video! Bet all parents wish they’d done this! Dutch father Frans Hofmeester videotaped daughter Lotte regularly from birth ... Dad Comes to the Rescue after Terrified Baby Deer Falls into Family Pool! Time for a Father’s Day family swim — but wait, we have a visitor! A little fawn finds itself corners and surrounded by big ... Two Beautiful Voices Will Astonish You With This Wonderful Song! It’s a favorite of singers and audiences alike — and for good reason, don’t you think? “The Prayer” is ... Today's Inspirational Story The Humble Savior My favorite Christmas text puts humility at the heart of Christmas. So this Christmas I am marveling at Jesus’ humility and wanting more of it myself. ... Jesus wasn’t humble for the same reasons we are (or should be). So how can looking at Jesus’ Christmas humility help us? Our humility, if there is any at all, is based on our finiteness, our fallibility, and our sinfulness. But the eternal Son of God was not finite. He was not fallible. And he was not sinful. So, unlike our humility, Jesus’ humility originated some other way. Here’s my favorite Christmas text. Look for Jesus’ humility. "Though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” (Philippians 2:6-8) What defines Jesus’ humility is the fact that it is mainly a conscious act of putting himself in a lowly, servant role for the good to others. His humility is defined by phrases like     “he emptied himself [of his divine rights to be free from abuse and suffering]”     “he took the form of a servant”     “he became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross” So Jesus’ humility was not a heart disposition of being finite or fallible or sinful. It was a heart of infinite perfection and infallible truthfulness and freedom from all sin, which for that very reason did not need to be served. He was free and full to overflow in serving. -- John Piper “Be loyal and faithful, and God will forgive your sin. Obey the Lord and nothing evil will happen to you.” Proverbs 16:6 GNT