Humility in the Church
Zephaniah wrote with an emphasis on pride versus humility. His call to repentance in 2:3
“Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his commands; seek righteousness, seek humility”
shows this well. The most interesting and exciting thing I learned while studying today in his prophesies about the church age. Zephaniah says that the proud “will be removed from [the remnant's] midst” and God will only “leave in the midst of [the remnant] a people humble and lowly.” The remnant that Zephaniah is speaking of is the church.
Now, if I look at this prophesy from a practical view point then I would say that it has not been fulfilled yet, since the church doesn’t act humbly. When I say church I am mean myself included. This was the final teaching that Jesus gave to his disciples before he went to the cross: humility. We know it is important then. But how important? It’s interesting to note that Zephaniah doesn’t define the remnant by faith or love, but by humility. We know that no one can have faith without a portion of humility, so I think it works. But Zephaniah is putting a very great emphasis on humility.
How do we get humble? One simple way is to go embarrass yourself in front of a crowd… you’ll lose most of your pride for a few days. 
I’m not recommending this, not because it would be painful, but because that is not what Zephaniah implies for walking in humility. Zephaniah tells us to seek the LORD and obey his commands for humility. This is awesome because relationship with God brings about the fruit of humility in our hearts. This is a general rule from scripture, relationship with God and understanding of his character produces good works. This is the case again… but isn’t that too easy!? Too wonderful, but not too easy. My heart continues to run from the LORD (maybe because it wants to keep its pride). Continue on in your friendship in the LORD.
