FAITH CAPSULE: Humility cures worldliness.

Deuteronomy 8

One that humbles self before God is positioning self for God’s blessing. James 4:10 buttressed, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.”
Do you know what it means to humble self before God?
First, if you are a hindrance or acting as an agent, hindering any man to serve God, you are one that does not humble God and will not experience the blessing of God. Pharaoh the king of Egypt was a hindrance and he denied the Israelites from serving God. The bible recorded, “So Moses and Aaron came into Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.” Pharaoh repeatedly denied the Israelites from serving God to experience curse situation but not the blessing of God.
Second, admitting your wrongdoing before God is confessing your iniquity and it will cause God to remember you, to visit you with His promises that is good. The word of Leviticus 26:40-42 for the Israelites speaks to all it is what it means to be humble and be blessed by God, “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt— 42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land.”
Thirdly, the word of God identified Moses, “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.” (Numbers 12:3) What prompted Moses’ identification as humble could not be more than being a man with content. Exodus 2:21 reported Moses’ content: “Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.” With no doubt, to be humble must be rooted in content. Any man with content is satisfied regardless of a downgrade position in the way of life. The challenge of Moses made him flee from the Palace of Pharaoh in Egypt to Midian. Moses’ content spirit humbled him to be available for God’s calling over his life. What a blessing to live in God’s divine assignment? Moses was content, he was humble and was blessed.
Fourthly, do not be discouraged or withdraw yourself before God because of your challenges. Are you experiencing troubling challenges? Deuteronomy 8:2, “And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.” Challenges can be training for a man, to become humble before God and be blessed by God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to visit you and give you a heart to be humble for His glory.