Three Things Christians Need Today

[457 words] Imagine encountering some of the people that Jesus encountered during His lifetime. Would you respond like Jesus did? Imagine coming face-to-face with a leper, a woman with a blood malady of 12 years, a woman caught in adultery, beggars, ingrates, disfigured and unsightly invalids, numerous diseased, tricksters, spoiled rich brats, a traitor, hateful and violent soldiers, a cowardly king, a spineless governor, etc., etc. How would you treat them? We can learn much from our Great Example! Jesus was humble! How difficult it must have been for the Son of God to lower Himself before His own creation! It is an awe-inspiring scene indeed to picture Jesus as He “began to wash the disciples feet and to wipe them” (John 13:15). The humility of Christ is set forth in exemplary detail for us in Philippians 2:3, “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness…