Article December 10, 1955 ISSUE

HUMILITY

ROLAND H. ALLEN

Studying the ministry of Jesus, we learn that his humility was one of the keys by which the divine power to heal and save mankind became accessible to him. Humility gave him unequaled success as the Exemplar of God's plan and purpose. Jesus recognized God as the source and creator of all that is good and real. To the young man who addressed him as "Good Master," he said (Luke 18:19), "Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God." Thus Jesus refuted the suggestion that there is a basis of good separate from God.

When the Jews charged Jesus with making himself equal with God, he replied (John 5:19, 20): "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth." The Master had experienced and used the power that an unselfed turning to God brings to one.

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