How Low Can You Go?

I've realized something over that last few months - my life is very much like limbo. Not the supposed waiting place for souls... the party game. You know, it's a staple at Hawaiian luaus and roller skating parties. Somebody will turn on some music that in any other situation would be completely unbearable, and you attempt to make your way under the horizontal pole, broomstick, or whatever you have on hand with your body arched back. All the while people are chanting the limbo challenge "How low can you go?" Now you may ask what this has to do with my life. And considering that I do not live in a perpetual luau nor have I worn roller-skates since the 2nd grade, this is a very valid question.

Lately I feel like the Holy Spirit has been challenging me, "How low can you go today Chelsea? How humble will you choose to be? With what sacrificial love will you serve those around you?" These can be very convicting, yet inspiring questions! I long to go lower, that Jesus may be lifted higher. I want to decrease that He would increase. I want to consider others above myself. But I must first answer the question, how low am I willing to go? Well, in the Christian life game of limbo, the bar has been set unbelievably low... in a good way. You see, Jesus was the most humble servant to walk the earth. He is how we are to measure all of our actions and behavior. He has given us a perfect example of humility.

Sometimes we believers sing these powerful worship songs, pleading Jesus to take us where He is. We long to be lifted up to heaven and dwell in His presence. But instead of bringing us up, what if He chose to bring us down to where He is as the Suffering Servant. Are we willing to go that low? If I try to shimmy my way under the impossibly low bar of humility that Jesus has set, in my own strength, my legs will inevitably give out from under me and I will end up on my back. The only fruit of that method is discouragement, pain and failure. But if I let the Holy Spirit take me there in His strength, He will carry me under the bar, conforming me more to the image of Yeshua every step of the way.

And so my answer to Holy Spirit's question is, "Take me as low as Jesus."

How low can you go?