The Gospel of humility

When man misses the opportunities God gives him to establish peace, war can take him by surprise and may even be imminent. And the consequences can be devastating. This concept is not only applicable in the military field, but also in the spiritual battle that Christians fight every day. I pray for all the brothers who tell me about their desire to start fighting the battle of faith preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, of standing in the gap and launching into the conquest of darkness to turn it into light by the power and brightness of Christ. We must be men and women of peace clothed in the spirit of humble soldiers, meek like the Lord, but with solid principles based on the Word of God to face the enemy. Jesus already clothed our nakedness in skins when we came into his arms. As we move into his kingdom of glory, we share with him the essence of his nature, his desire that we be one in him and with him.

The Lord did not preach with lashes, but with firmness. He fell in love with his disciples with the example of his life so that they would follow him; he became one with them and breathed a new breath of life into them that renewed their spirits lethargic by hypocritical tradition and religiosity. They were witnesses of the presence of God himself in their walk and from Pentecost, with the coming of the Holy Spirit, they were empowered to announce the testimony of Jesus, his death and resurrection, the gift of salvation by grace and the opportunity to to be born again to every creature that recognizes its sinful condition and decides to reconcile itself with God through forgiveness.

However, a proud leadership continues to rise up that in the name of God intends to supplant the Lord, seeking a glory that He does not share with anyone, becoming disciples for their own servitude and living under the shadow of a limitless egotism that dishonors the true gospel. Egolatry is pride and conceit, it is believing or feeling someone or something that you really are not, or worse, in the case of the Christian, using the tools that our Lord has given us, the gifts and talents granted by the Spirit, to manipulate to the faithful for their own benefit and not for the gospel. God have mercy on such. They cease to be the men of peace who glorify the Lord, and they go about their own wars, overthrowing, humiliating and condemning their brothers in the faith. They forgot that the church is the Lord's wife.

To be an evangelist you have to be humble. To be humble is to walk in obedience, it is to diminish so that the Lord may increase, it is to put Him in the first place, it is to prostrate at the foot of the Cross, letting Jesus be Jesus (and not believing himself Jesus), it is to love our enemies because the enemy is also our neighbor. Christ himself said: “If you love only those who love you, what reward will you receive? Don't even the tax collectors do that? (Matthew 5:46). The egotists do not know the love of God, their ego clouds their minds. They distribute the gospel as alms, showing their bent faces as if they had finished fasting to obtain the grace of men. They secretly seek the praise that belongs only to our Lord.

Christ humbled himself, he did not take into account being God; He did not cling to this condition and proclaimed salvation and reconciliation with the Father through Him teaching that the servant has a mission and will suffer persecution and will find suffering for the sake of the gospel, that he will be hated for the sake of His name, which must endure to receive blessing and reward from on high. That is why we do not understand the war evangelists who proclaim a salvation by the sword from a pedestal of ego-idolatry.

We are soldiers of Christ and we have an urgent mission in the spiritual field. To fulfill it, let's look only at Him, the example that He left us of a humility that turned the world upside down causing multitudes to surrender at His feet. And it was the same God. He humbled himself more than anyone. I pray that the Lord will use you with power by preaching his Word wherever you move as a disciple to be an evangelist, and you will be filled with the Holy Spirit and humbly diminish so that Christ may grow in you.

God bless you!