Here’s this great prophet, Jeremiah, and he says, then, “You’re calling me to go to the nations?  I’m just a child.  I can’t speak.  I don’t know what to say.  What am I going to say?”  But the Lord said unto him, “Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.”  These are some great lessons on humility.  It doesn’t come from within yourself; you say what God’s told you to say; amen?  Don’t apologize for it to anybody.  He glimpses himself, this awareness of the awesomeness of this call.  But the reality is, “I have nothing to say.”  I love this part.  He says, “Don’t say you’re a child.”  Humility is not a feigned nothingness.  When we know that anointing, I want to tell you something.  We are not nothing, we are ambassadors of God.  We are somebody; amen?  But it’s God that’s in us.  Don’t minimize the greatness of God in you.  That’s not humility.  Humility is recognizing it’s God in you that has made you great.  I’m talking about in the eyes of the nations.  This is our wisdom to the nations (amen?) that we would be those that have these great commandments of God, the great wisdom of God.  Paul even refers to it in a different perception or a different perspective when he talks about, “What advantage is there to being a Jew?”  He says, “Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God” (Romans 3:1-2).  Amen?

That’s what made Israel great.  That’s what makes us great as the church.  Genuine humility.  Rejecting their god.  Our God has made us ten times wiser than what the world can produce.  The greatness is seen not in our proclaiming that we are ten times wiser but in our rejecting their gods.  “I will not bow to your image.”  Amen?  That’s humility.  Humility shows a boldness in our trust for God.  So we don’t want to have that misunderstanding of humility.  It’s just a realizing that it’s very similar to that aspect of the word “meekness” that we’ve talked about so many times.  A meek spirit is not someone that has their eyes cast down and they apologize for existing.  A meek spirit is one that recognizes our own lack, but also understands this anointing that Jeremiah is talking about here, that we will boldly stand and proclaim whatever it is that God is having to say.

We’re going to need this in this hour that’s coming.  We’re going to need to move in power but not in haughtiness.  We’re going to need to move in an assurance of who we are and Whom we represent as ambassadors.  Then, we’re going to have to boldly stand up and renounce the world to its face.  Our trust in the sovereignty of God will manifest the fruit of God from before the foundations of the world.  Some of us could be martyred, some of us delivered supernaturally.  Some of us wandering about in the wilderness wearing animal skins and sleeping in caves and some sawed asunder—a people of whom the world is not worthy to look on, but are able to say, “Not my will; Thy will be done.”  Humility will be a heart that doesn’t demand its own standard of living.  Humility will be those that can separate from natural clans and say, “Behold, my mother and my brethren.”  “In these last days your greatest enemies are going to be those of your own household,” the Scripture says (Matthew 10:36).  They will turn you over to the authorities.  Humility will accept it as the will of God.  Humility will allow us to pray for our enemies.  I die daily.  So, I think in the hour that we’re living in it’s so important that we can come to that type of an understanding.  “Don’t say you’re a child.  Go in that to where I’ve sent you and speak that that I put in your mouth.  What I command, you shall speak.  Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with you to deliver you, saith the Lord” (Jeremiah 1:7-8).  So, it’s necessary that we come into that place, I believe, in these last days.  Can we trust God?