Matt 20:28 “The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve”
Luke 22:27 “I am among you as one who serves”
Jesus spent his entire three and a half years with the apostles trying to teach them to “Follow me.” That didn’t just mean to go where he went, but to go HOW He went there – in complete submission to the Father, in complete humility.
Phil 2:1-8 (NIV)
1 If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross!
From the book Humility, by Andrew Murray:
“Humility is a virtue that only comes in power when the fullnesof the Spirit makes us partakers of the indwelling Christ and He lives within us.”
Only by emptying ourselves completely – a.k.a. dying to our “self” (Gal 2:20) – can we be filled completely with His Spirit which gives us the virtue of Christ’s humility.