Humbled

There are many instances in scripture when men ask God to look upon them, or upon their situation. For instance:
"Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts; Look down from heaven and see, and visit this vine."                                                             Psalm 80:14
"Look upon me, and be merciful unto me, as Your custom is toward those who love Your name."                                                           Psalm 119:132
"Look down from heaven and see from Your habitation, holy and glorious, where are Your zeal and Your strength, the yearning of Your heart and Your mercies toward me? Are they restrained?"                                                   Isa. 63:15
"My eyes flow and do not cease without interruption, till the LORD from heaven looks down and sees....I called on Your name, O LORD, from the lowest pit. You have heard my voice: Do not hide Your ear from my sighing, from my cry for help. You drew near on the day I called on You, and said, "Do not fear."          Lam. 3:49-57
"Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my mark. Oh, that the Almighty would answer me, that my prosecutor (accuser) had written a book!        Job 31:35
The psalmist at one point even orders the LORD to come down:
"Bow down Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke."                                                     Psalm 144:5

Even as men throughout the ages have called upon the LORD to look, see, hear, move, and intervene on behalf of His people, the LORD has done so. He has spoken, seen, and yes, even come down, in answer to the cries and dire straits of His people. Everyday, our own voices join with the voices of the generations that have gone before, calling upon, and crying to the LORD, asking Him to look at our condition or circumstance. However, about this, I read a very interesting verse that caused me to stop, think, and marvel:
"The LORD is high above all nations, His glory above the heavens. Who is like the LORD our God, who dwells on high, who humbles Himself to behold the things that are in the heavens and in the earth? He raises the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the ash heap, that He may seat him with princes- with the princes of His people."
                                                                        Psalm 113:4-8

We have an idea of the meaning of the term "humbles Himself", but to spell it out clearly, the Hebrew word shaphel means, "to become low, sink, be abased, to bring low, make low, to humiliate, to cast down from a high rank, to sit down in a low place".
In order for the LORD to see, hear, answer, move, lift, raise, and seat us, He must humble Himself first. He is so highly exalted, that to even see or hear us, He must humble His majesty. Yet, He loves to see and hear us, even though it costs Him to do so.
When I consider this, I am a little better able to understand the amazement of the psalmist who wrote:
"When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit  (give attention to) him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels (Elohim), and You have crowned him with glory and honor."     Psalm 8:3-5

How touching it is to me to know how He humbles His great Being in order to hear me, in order to see me, and the things that concern me. In a way, this humbling that God chooses for Himself is like a very tall man, who must sit, lean down, squat, or kneel in order to listen to, and speak to a small child. Only in this case, this is a Being of such huge spiritual stature, that He must make Himself spiritually smaller, or less, in order to receive our communications. It boggles the mind.
God Almighty humbles Himself to see, hear, and speak to us, and to look into the things of the earth. Through the blood of Jesus, we understand the privilege of being able to approach the Most High directly and boldly, and to enter into His very presence (Heb. 4:16, 10:19), even into the Most Holy Place. Jesus has reconciled us, and made us one with Himself and the Father. The Holy Spirit, which we have received through Christ, has made the way for that connection between our small spirit, and the infinite and immense Spirit who is our God: 
"Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God."  Rom. 8:26-27

Now, I understand a little more about the hugeness of the spiritual disparity that exists between God and man that is bridged by the Holy Spirit in each believer. This disparity is so great that Paul, speaking to and about believers, writes that we don't even know what to pray. What really needs to be prayed between man and God cannot even be expressed within the limits of human language!  This scripture is saying to me that we need the Holy Spirit to pray according to His knowledge of the will of God, therefore our understanding of God's will must be sorely lacking. Thanks be to God who has foreseen this, and provided the spiritual connection to Him that we need in order to make up the gap in our understanding and language. The scripture above says that we need the intercession of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, because They do know and understand the entirety of the will of God as it applies to us individually, and as it applies at the same time, to the whole of creation, and eternity.
We daily bring our petitions directly to God, but we do not consider how He must humble Himself to hear them. It is an awesome thought. It is difficult to wrap my mind around this kind of spiritual stature.
Yet, He calls us, as a body together, to the same measure of the spiritual stature of the fullness of His Son, Christ (Eph. 4:11-13). Our purpose and ultimate destiny is to walk in the same spiritual stature of Christ, but it takes every brother and sister, every member of the faith out of every nation, kindred, tongue and tribe together, even every member from past and future generations, to grow as a unity into this great stature. Yet even this great stature of Christ is not comparable to the spiritual stature of God, for Jesus said, "...My Father is greater than I." (Jn. 14:28). 
It is beyond my imagination, but even this small glimpse into His immensity and power makes me wonder in my heart, "Is there anything too great for our God?", and the answer must be "No, nothing exists that could be as great as He is."
Thank You, Father, for humbling Yourself in order to hear and see the things concerning me.

Our Father humbles Himself to behold the things that are in the heavens, and in the earth.

"Hear My Cry, O God"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CRTY1xb0NE

"God, I Look to You"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR5IoWH9OiI