It was yet another Sunday morning during ministration that the message was loudly sounded to ears of the ears of the congregation " humility shouldn't not be an state due to your condition, but an option from your mind"
So I quickly recalled the woman who shared her experience with me as worker in one of the major cathedrals on the next street.
For as many as passed by on few occasions could see the woman that she was always on the church premises by 6am wearing some faded jeans an old T-shirt and some slippers. She always comes to clean the chapel and arrange the seats, for six years she has never missed a single sunday coming to clean the place.
On this faithful day a young man walked into the chapel while she was still cleaning, he went and sat down watching as the lady cleaned. He was impressed that a lady who looked quite good and attractive even in the old cloths and a scarf over her hair could be so dedicated to her work in church. He thought within himself that this was an unfortunate lady who probably had not gottten any one to take care of her schooling and now she would probably be hawker or a fruit seller on the street struggling to make ends meet.
He watched and within his heart he felt he now knew what God wanted him to do. When he had felt a compulsion to church he had not understood but now he thought he did. He went back to his car and took out three $100 dollar notes and when the lady had finished her work and was about to leave he called her back and commended get for her service and gave her the notes. She respectfully declined the gift but he insisted pressing it into her hands. He asked if she lived close by or if he could drop her off so she wouldn't be late. She thanked him and told him that her car was nearby, but he did not comprehend or even try to understand what she had just said. He walked her out determined to discover all he could about this young lady that Good wanted him to help change her level. They walked out of the chapel with him telling her where he worked and how God had asked him to come early to church that day, and how he believed God is directing him to make a huge difference in her life.
He was so busy talking he had not realized they had walked directly to a car parked under some trees in the parking lot. The car made his one year old Benz look like a worn out wheelbarrow.
The lady opened the drivers door stepped in and handed over her card to the man and said " I believe God sent you here for a purpose, but I do not think it was to my level, maybe if was to change yours." I am tempted to say that it took a forklift to shut the young man's mouth and move him from the place he was glued to as the lady drove off.
God indeed had a purpose for bringing him to church that morning and that purpose was to teach him humility which he learnt very well, because now two people always clean the chapel when everyone fails to show up.
Many times we esteem ourselves so high that where God sends us to learn we go trying to teach, we feel that with all the activities we've got around us we have no time to offer Him a humble service. We may be men created in the image of God but at one time ants shall be the professors seeking to impart knowledge to us only if we are humble to learn.
So today don't let your conditions of any form design your humility to anyone, but become the architect of the life you choose to lead.