Letting Christ Lift Us Up

But I will declare it forever; 

I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 

All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, 

but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. 

Psalm 75:9–10

One of those things that we struggle with the most but forget we even have a problem with is pride. In Psalm 75, the interesting image we get is horns. This image comes from a ram who has horns that it uses to prove it’s power. 

But look: the horn of the wicked will be cut off. Earlier in the chapter it says, ‘Do not lift up your horn, fon’t boast.’ It’s hard because every interaction we have with people, we are testing how we should interact. And for many, it is natural to see if you can prove how you’re better than. Better than them in who you know. Or better than them in your ability to do things. Better than them in what you know. Or as we sometimes say, ‘one up someone.’ We imagine that being better, makes us better. 

That is a lie. What makes us better is our humility. We’ll see this in our sermon text on Sunday. And we see this in Jesus Christ ultimately who instead of overpowering the world to fix it submitted to the attacks of the proud to heal it. 

And so our pride, we lay it down. We humble ourselves. We turn our hearts to worship and delare the salvation of God. You see we are lifted up not through our own power, but through the power of Christ. We are exalted only when we humble ourselves. The mother of the sons of Zebedee thought she had to advocate for her sons, she thought she could argue hard enough to get her sons positions of power. She was wrong, although she fell on her knees, she had to learn to humble her heart as well. And so do we. We must let go our our own dreams in order to be restored to glory, it is not our glory but the glory of God in Christ.