Humility

The Holy Spirit is said to be given to the children of God for the purpose of comforming them into the holy likeness of Jesus Christ and preparing them to live eternally in His presence. (2 Cor. 3:18, Heb. 12:14, Rom. 8:29, Phil. 3:20-21) If then, this the goal of the Spirit in His work of sanctification, then how does He plan on bringing it about? According to John 17:17, Jesus informs us that the tool of transformation will be the word of God. So what does the knowledge of the word of God beget? Now I pray all would agree that Jesus is the most holy person in all of heaven, for it is He whose holy presence we are being prepared for. Yet also, Jesus is the most humble man in all of heaven, He demonstrating His infinite humility in descending to earth as a man and in His undeserved death in the place of hell-deserving sinners (Rom. 6:23, 2 Cor.5:21). So then, it would seem then that the more we are made to look like Jesus in holiness, the more humble we become. If we deserve nothing but death, then God revealing to us our helpless state and a substitute sent on our behalf is mega-grace. Not only does He not kill us, but sends His Son to take our punishment and provides for us the path to eternal life and eternal pleasure in His presence. (John 14:6, Ps. 16:11) How much more humbling can any truth be? Furthermore, every additional truth that is revealed to us about God by the Spirit through the word of truth, should, if rightly handled, break and humble our self-centered hearts and prideful wills more and more. It would seem then that those who have a greater knowledge of God should be the most humble. Yet, why is this not so? Could it be that we have a distorted view of godliness, due to our natural inclination to boasting in ourselves? My prayer then is that we would pray that God would reveal to us in increasing degree the knowledge of His glory, yet with the understanding that it is for the purpose of fighting sin and pride, and begetting the attitude of humility evidenced in Christ.
**Phil. 2:5-8 - "Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross."
Do we really want to be like Jesus? Then may the reality of holy humility free us to boast only in the Lord and not in ourselves.
**Matt. 11:28 - "Come to me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." (Matt. 11:28-30)

What does fight jason mean?

Please allow me to explain what I meant in titling my blog fight jason. Let me start by saying that I intentionally selected this to be the name of my blog. You ask why? In my experience, the best way to aid retention and invoke participation in prayer for a cause is through the means of repetition and access. So I figured what better way to do this than by titling the site I plan on my all my friends and family using to stay in touch with me on as a means to pray for that which I desire them most to interceed on my behalf for. Now, what do I mean by fight? The biblical command to fight comes from 1 Timothy 6:12, "Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses." It needs to be noted here that faith is a fight against the enemy and our own flesh. The enemy desires to steal the joy of knowing and be satisfied in Christ alone (John 10:10, Ps. 16:11), to kill the life that Christ is to our souls (1 John 5:11-12, John 14:6, John 11:25-26, John 17:3), and utterly destroy the holiness that the Spirit seeks to produce in our lives (2 Cor. 3:18, 1 Thes. 4:7-8, Col. 1:22-23) and without with we will not see the Lord (Heb. 12:14). Our flesh joins the enemies efforts in the fight against us to grieve the Spirit of holiness (Gal. 5:16-17) and to provoke us in God-hating (Rom. 8:6-8, Rom. 7:17-20). Therefore, we've been called to fight against these forces in the power of the Spirit to kill that which hates God and which God hates to His glory in our holiness. For this reason, I ask that everytime you visit my blog or even think of it that you pray "FIGHT JASON!" May God grant the power to persevere in hope and faith (Rom. 15:5-6, Rom. 15:13) through the dependence of His people on His Spirit, who does all things for the exaltation of Christ! (Eph. 1:13-14)