But it is from these very thorns that Jesus proves His power. It is from these very thorns that He shows how humility overcomes the brokenness. It is from these very thorns that He produces sweet, abundant fruit. And so, in His humility, He opens not His mouth. “When he was reviled,” Peter writes, “he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.”8 This is how humility overcomes the world: Humility trusts God. In the midst of injustice, humility believes that God is just. In the midst of grief, humility believes that
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