Humility

Zechariah 9:9 : Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

When reading this prophecy fulfilled in Matthew 21, immediately I had a picture

of what it might have looked like at back then. I thought of people cheering, and

as it says in Matthew of people strawing branches and all that good stuff. Then a

picture that came in my mind was from the show Rome, and there was a scene

when Julius Ceasar returned to the city as their new leader, and people were cheering,

and he looked all regaland pompous and all that. But in Zechariah, it says Jesus

came in lowly, or meek. The King of this universe, came in not pompous and brash,

but meekly, and with humility, into our lives. Jesus exemplified this quality throughout

His life on this earth, starting from the way he was born. And if Jesus, who has all

the reason to receive all praise and glory can possess that characteristic, I just want

to encourage all of us to have that attitude of humility in whatever you do or say.

Stay humble, and let's never glory in anything about ourselves but only in our King.

Justus