5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: What Does Humility Look Like? | 5 Minutes with Jesus | March 26, 2026
- You might find yourself in a place right now
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- Where no one seems to notice or value you.
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- You might feel disrespected or overlooked,
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- But i want you to grasp hold of the truth
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- That heaven sees things differently.
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- We all look at what we can see with our eyes,
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- But god looks at the heart.
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- If you find yourself in a tough place, a place of waiting,
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- Offer that as worship.
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- Heaven. this is nothing.
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- Everything done for the glory of god.
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- Whether recognized down here or not, is seen by heaven.
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- You can be doing the most
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- Unappreciated job, but when you do it with a full
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- And grateful heart to god, that is true.
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- Godly humility.
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- One of the first books
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- I ever read by charles dickens was david copperfield.
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- My mom was a huge dickens fan, and so his books were often
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- Included in birthday or christmas gifts.
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- It was a lot to plow through as a 14 year old.
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- Some of the dickensian english was tough to understand,
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- But there was one character in the book who stood out to me.
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- And not not in a good way.
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- His name was uriah heep, you know, it wasn't.
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- Even his name is creepy.
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- His most famous
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- Saying throughout the text is how very humble i am.
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- His presentation to those around him
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- Is that he's one of the humblest among them,
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- And nothing could be further from the truth.
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- He's a robber, a deceiver and a manipulator in many ways.
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- To me, he's an earthly picture of the very essence of satan
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- Appearing as light but rotten to the very core.
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- So what is godly humility
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- As christ prepares
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- To enter jerusalem on the colt of a donkey on palm sunday
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- We see true humility in all its beauty.
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- And paul's letter to the philippians.
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- There is the most
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- Glorious description of christ and what true humility is.
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- It's thought that
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- This particular passage that paul includes in his letter
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- Was actually well known to people as a christological hymn.
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- Much as we would recognize, like a worship song
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- From the first line.
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- Well, this is what paul writes in chapter two.
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- You must have the same attitude that christ jesus had,
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- Though he was god.
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- He did not think of equality with god as something to cling
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- To. instead, he gave up his divine privileges.
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- He took the humble position of a slave
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- And was born as a human being.
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- When he appeared in human form,
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- He humbled himself in obedience to god and died.
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- Criminal's death on a cross.
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- Therefore, god elevated him to the place of highest honor
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- And gave him the name above all other names, that
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- At the name of jesus every knee should bow in heaven
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- And on earth and under the earth,
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- And every tongue declare that jesus christ
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- Is lord, to the glory of god the father.
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- If there was ever a moment in human history
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- When someone could have said, you know, this is not my job,
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- Surely it would be when the perfect, sinless
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- Lamb of god was crucified in our place.
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- The fact that jesus, who lived on earth
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- And faced every kind of temptation that you and i
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- Will ever face, and yet never sinned, was willing to die
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- A criminal's death on the cross is mindblowing to me.
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- We live in a culture, and that times in the church
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- Where we lift people up
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- As if they should be treated in a special way
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- Because they're a star or a celebrity.
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- Scripture makes it clear that we give honor where it's due.
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- You know,
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- We pray for our pastors and leaders,
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- But they should never take the place in our lives,
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- Our love, our loyalty that belongs to christ alone.
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- Jesus modeled for us a whole new way to live.
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- When he was preparing to enter jerusalem and palm sunday,
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- Those who were waiting for messiah
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- To come would have expected him to ride in on a war horse.
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- Not on the fall of a donkey.
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- So how do you and i, how do we live that way?
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- This is a different kind of kingdom.
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- The kind where the first will be last and the last first.
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- It's hard to shake free
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- From our culture's understanding of greatness and importance.
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- You might find yourself in a place right now
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- Where no one seems to notice or value you.
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- You might feel disrespected or overlooked,
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- But i want you to grasp hold of the truth
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- That heaven sees things differently.
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- We all look at what we can see with our eyes,
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- But god looks at the heart.
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- If you find yourself in a tough place, a place of waiting,
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- Offer that as worship.
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- Heaven. this is nothing.
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- Everything done for the glory of god.
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- Whether recognized down here or not, is seen by heaven.
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- You can be doing the most unappreciated job,
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- But when you do it with a full and grateful heart
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- To god, that is true godly humility.
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- Let's pray.
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- Lord, thank you for the wonderful example
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- That you showed us of what humility truly looks like.
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- Lord sometimes it's hard not to be impacted by the world
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- We live in and what greatness looks like.
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- You showed us what it looks like.
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- Help us today and tomorrow and on the days and weeks ahead,
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- To live in a way where we understand that
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- When we do everything for you, you miss absolutely nothing.
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- In jesus name, amen.
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