But this is not what God wants from us. Jesus bore ridicule, and He expects us to bear our own crosses and follow Him, even if the path is one of ridicule. There is no pride at Calvary. When Jesus came to Calvary the executioners divested Him of everything He had. They hung Him naked before the crowd and gambled for His cloak.
Humiliation is a part of bearing the cross.
Before we can be truly effective for Christ, before we can be His disciples, we must realize that there is nothing in us worthy of God's grace. We must realize that our pride is totally without basis. Sometimes we must be publicly humiliated before coming to this realization. Jesus, though He could have called on angels from heaven to hide His nakedness and rescue Him from His place of humiliation, allowed Himself to become a public spectacle. It is not so much that God wants us to be humiliated, anymore than He wants us to be ridiculed or misunderstood or deserted or separated from the things we love.