Jas 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
humble
1.
not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
2.
having a feeling of insignificance, inferiority, subservience, etc.: In the presence of so many world-famous writers I felt very humble.
3.
low in rank, importance, status, quality, etc.; lowly: of humble origin; a humble home.
4.
courteously respectful: In my humble opinion you are wrong.
5.
low in height, level, etc.; small in size: a humble member of the galaxy.
How often do you humble yourself before the Lord?
We need to be humble before God and way too often we lift ourselves up as if we have worth of our own.
We grow up being told here and there that we have to have high self esteem, to have low self esteem is a bad thing because then we don't think we are of any worth and other people will walk all over us. We'll let ourselves be used and abused if we have low self esteem, or so it's said. Over and over we are told to find worth in ourselves, that we have to believe in ourselves. Yet to find worth in ourselves outside of our Savior is truly worthless, it means nothing whatsoever. To be cocky and self assured is so incredibly dangerous. There will be so many people who are lost because they do not feel their need of a Savior. They'll believe their own self-worth is more than enough to guarantee them salvation. They won't feel their worthlessness in the sight of God and because of that they won't feel the need to humble themselves.
I'm NOT saying we have to be wimpy, cry babies, who never speak up. What I'm saying is we have to find our worth IN CHRIST! He is our RIGHTEOUSNESS! He is our WORTH. Without Christ we are NOT WORTHY and will NEVER be worthy. When we believe that we are worthy outside of Christ we are raising ourselves up when we have no right to.
Humble ourselves. Humble- NOT PROUD in ourselves. INSIGNIFICANT, INFERIOR to God ALWAYS! Subservient to GOD.
How dare anyone believe they are more significant than their CREATOR!
How dare anyone believe they are better than their REDEEMER!
Yet people do and they do it ALL the time.
We are NOTHING in and of ourselves. Of ourselves we will ultimately no longer exist. We did NOT bring ourselves into existence. Not a single one of us will ourselves to be, not the first human and not the last. We are by design, willed by God to exist.
Recently I saw a movie that had men seeking to find their creator believing this creator was an alien being. They ended up finding him and the alien being wasn't happy to see them at all, in fact he began to kill them. Men fabricate so much in trying to explain their existence. Some believe we came from ooze billions and trillions of years ago, that we descended from apes. Stories, so many stories. And these people call our God just a story as well.
Our God has proven Himself over and over and over again in so many ways. History attests to our God. Our God has given signs and many, many wonders time and again. Yet people want God to give them more and more rather than have faith, rather than believe. People want to blame God by saying He never revealed Himself to them. People want to believe that God has somehow ripped them off, fooled them, that if only HE did more then they would believe.
God is NOT to blame!
God has given ALL he needs to give.
We must humble ourselves before God.
We must humble ourselves in the sight of our God.
Only God will lift us up in the way that matters more than any lifting up upon earth matters.
We can be lifted extremely high in the sight of men and it means absolutely nothing. We can be lifted up as high as we want to believe we are lifted up, but it will mean nothing. If we are not lifted up by God then any lifting up is in all reality just a lie.
We don't need to feel GOOD about ourselves, we need to feel GOOD about our GOD!
Please LORD help to learn to humble ourselves in this crazy world where we are taught and teach our children that to be humble is an undesirable thing. Help us LORD to find worth ONLY IN YOU! You will give us any WORTH we need when we are YOURS. You will give us YOUR WORTH and there is NO GREATER WORTH IN EXISTENCE!
All in YOU and all by YOUR LOVE, YOUR GRACE! YOUR MERCY!
humble
1.
not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
2.
having a feeling of insignificance, inferiority, subservience, etc.: In the presence of so many world-famous writers I felt very humble.
3.
low in rank, importance, status, quality, etc.; lowly: of humble origin; a humble home.
4.
courteously respectful: In my humble opinion you are wrong.
5.
low in height, level, etc.; small in size: a humble member of the galaxy.
How often do you humble yourself before the Lord?
We need to be humble before God and way too often we lift ourselves up as if we have worth of our own.
We grow up being told here and there that we have to have high self esteem, to have low self esteem is a bad thing because then we don't think we are of any worth and other people will walk all over us. We'll let ourselves be used and abused if we have low self esteem, or so it's said. Over and over we are told to find worth in ourselves, that we have to believe in ourselves. Yet to find worth in ourselves outside of our Savior is truly worthless, it means nothing whatsoever. To be cocky and self assured is so incredibly dangerous. There will be so many people who are lost because they do not feel their need of a Savior. They'll believe their own self-worth is more than enough to guarantee them salvation. They won't feel their worthlessness in the sight of God and because of that they won't feel the need to humble themselves.
I'm NOT saying we have to be wimpy, cry babies, who never speak up. What I'm saying is we have to find our worth IN CHRIST! He is our RIGHTEOUSNESS! He is our WORTH. Without Christ we are NOT WORTHY and will NEVER be worthy. When we believe that we are worthy outside of Christ we are raising ourselves up when we have no right to.
Humble ourselves. Humble- NOT PROUD in ourselves. INSIGNIFICANT, INFERIOR to God ALWAYS! Subservient to GOD.
How dare anyone believe they are more significant than their CREATOR!
How dare anyone believe they are better than their REDEEMER!
Yet people do and they do it ALL the time.
We are NOTHING in and of ourselves. Of ourselves we will ultimately no longer exist. We did NOT bring ourselves into existence. Not a single one of us will ourselves to be, not the first human and not the last. We are by design, willed by God to exist.
Recently I saw a movie that had men seeking to find their creator believing this creator was an alien being. They ended up finding him and the alien being wasn't happy to see them at all, in fact he began to kill them. Men fabricate so much in trying to explain their existence. Some believe we came from ooze billions and trillions of years ago, that we descended from apes. Stories, so many stories. And these people call our God just a story as well.
Our God has proven Himself over and over and over again in so many ways. History attests to our God. Our God has given signs and many, many wonders time and again. Yet people want God to give them more and more rather than have faith, rather than believe. People want to blame God by saying He never revealed Himself to them. People want to believe that God has somehow ripped them off, fooled them, that if only HE did more then they would believe.
God is NOT to blame!
God has given ALL he needs to give.
We must humble ourselves before God.
We must humble ourselves in the sight of our God.
Only God will lift us up in the way that matters more than any lifting up upon earth matters.
We can be lifted extremely high in the sight of men and it means absolutely nothing. We can be lifted up as high as we want to believe we are lifted up, but it will mean nothing. If we are not lifted up by God then any lifting up is in all reality just a lie.
We don't need to feel GOOD about ourselves, we need to feel GOOD about our GOD!
Please LORD help to learn to humble ourselves in this crazy world where we are taught and teach our children that to be humble is an undesirable thing. Help us LORD to find worth ONLY IN YOU! You will give us any WORTH we need when we are YOURS. You will give us YOUR WORTH and there is NO GREATER WORTH IN EXISTENCE!
All in YOU and all by YOUR LOVE, YOUR GRACE! YOUR MERCY!
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