Imitating Christ's Humility

Thought i was going to be the first one to blog when i checked just now, but someone beat me to it...haha..

just want to share my experience when i first heard pastor's call to love our neighbours. To me, my neighbours would be my fellow physics mates in nus. Being a small cohort (~60+), i am rather close to many of them. To love my neighbours would seem to be an easy task initially, but the Lord reminded me of a personal hindrance which might have been a stumbling block to truly love these friends of mine.

As nus students, we would all know this system called bell curve which is used to determine our grades for exams, which literally means that our dear fellow mates who attend the same lectures with us become our 'competitors'. Being a small cohort, this sense of competition would potentially be greater, although it is not evident among us most of the time. At least for physics there's no group projects or presentations to make, which i've heard from other fac that it can get pretty ugly at times.

i guess what the Lord wanted to highlight to me was that sometimes, i would subconsciously compare myself with others in terms of school work and tests and if i'm going to have that baggage in my mind, i could never be able to truly love with that unconditional love of Christ..and the verse that came was from Philippians 2:3,4

3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

these verses spoke to me, that truly humility is my key to loving my neighbours and i hope this might speak to some of you out there. Its the humility of Christ, who made Himself nothing but the role of a servant and became obedient to even death on the Cross to save us. Whats more of us that we are called to imitate the humility of Christ

Do seek the Lord during this season to reveal any personal hindrances from our call to love our neighbours and i pray that all of us will be much blessed even as we bless our place and fellowship with our neighbours