We cannot know God’s greatness without also knowing His humility. We cannot know how big He is without also knowing how small. We cannot know His strength without knowing His weakness. We cannot know His joy without knowing His sorrow.  

God’s humility, smallness, weakness, and sorrow have all been made known to us in Christ Jesus. It was the taking on or adding to Himself of these qualities in the flesh of Jesus which makes Him a deeply personal God. He is not impersonal in anyway. He sees us with emotion. He feels with us, not just for us. He came to know and to be known by us. 

To know God and to be known by Him, then, to know His power and to operate in it, to know His beauty and to be changed by it, is in part to know His care and concern for the small and the little, the forgotten and the broken, the slave and the lost, the hopeless and the hurting, the lonely and the alone, and to act towards them. 

It is no proof of humility that one is great. But it is no small proof of greatness that one is humble.

The greatness of God entered the littleness of man and of his circumstances. His humility abounded and abounds. A father lowers himself to play with his baby girl or boy. A king descends to sit with his servant. A friend goes out of his way to welcome the stranger. A God descends to comfort the afflicted, to save sinners, to restore the broken, to set the captive free—to be with us.  

How great is His love for us. How great is Him who loves us.