Day 10 Paul’s Humility

Paul’s Humility

Someone recently told me about a retired minister who refused to even read any part of the New Testament Paul wrote. That only leaves 14 books of 27 because Paul wrote 13.

They thought Paul was arrogant and that justified putting aside half the New Testament.

Was Paul arrogant? He certainly believed implicitly in what he taught but did that make him arrogant?

Writing from a prison cell and facing the very real possibility of execution, Paul wrote to the fledgling church in Colosse, ‘Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And pray for us too, that God may open a door to our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains’ (Colossians 4:2,3).

An arrogant apostle would not be asking a tiny group of new believers to pray for him. An arrogant apostle would trust in his own praying or that of other apostles. No, Paul was not arrogant and his request for prayer is a sure sign of his humility.

Notice too that Paul doesn’t ask for prayer that he not be executed or even for release from prison. He asks ‘that God may open a door to our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ …’ Here is a humble man with an enormous passion to win souls to Christ.

Men like this turn the world upside down.

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