Jas 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith,
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist
the devil, and he will flee from you.
Submit ourselves to
God.
Resist the devil
God gives us the
grace we require as we recognize our need of His grace. The PROUD do NOT
recognize their need for the grace of Jesus Christ, their Savior.
It's true. Pride has stood in the way of many, many
things. The belief that on our own we can attain all we want is a very
deceptive belief. That we have been taught to be self sufficient is well known,
yet the danger of that teaching is leaving out our biggest need in this life,
to be entirely submitted to our Savior and His grace. We can live our lives
knowing we are dependent upon God for ALL things and most importantly our
Salvation, or we can live believing we have to only rely upon ourselves for all
things, including saving ourselves.
Too many try to walk
the fence on this. They want to believe they must be self-sufficient by not
including God in their day to day, mundane life, while still depending on Him
for their salvation. They refuse to truly
submit to God. They refuse to resist the devil and his awful influence to
promote self-sufficiency, to encourage pride in us.
The devil will flee
from us if we resist him, he doesn't want us to believe that it is possible
that he can flee from us. He knows if we
try to get him to flee under our own power he can take advantage of us dig in deeper. It is only through our submission to God and
our resisting of the devil that he will flee from us. The power to resist comes from God.
If the devil doesn't
flee from us we remain under his influence and that influence will do all it
can to keep us from full submission to God. Let us HUMBLE ourselves, let us
recognize our need to humble ourselves. Admit that we need God to direct our
path, our life in all its avenues.
Please Father,
please by YOUR grace help us to humble ourselves, help us to give up all our
pride knowing that YOU are our all in all! Help us to resist the devil so he
flees from us, we cannot resist him on our own. Bless us Father, bless us in
You, and in Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, our Savior.
Amen.
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