FAITH CAPSULE: With humility is the ability to obey God.
Matthew 18
Life is a journey.
In the journey of life, your humility will declare your heart/mind before God.
God wants all to be humble in the journey of life.
One that is humble will be obedient to the word of God.
What is your mind like before God?
Are you an acclaimed believer of God?
As an acclaimed believer, what kind of heart/mind is yours before God
Philippians 2:5, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” The mind of Jesus is humble and obedient.
Do you have the mind of Christ or with the desire for the mind of Christ?
The mind of Jesus is the mind of obedience, a total submission to the commands of God with no iota of disobedient as Philippians 2:8 records, “And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”
The word of Jesus points out that one with the mind of humility as in little child will not miss heaven. Matthew 18:2-4 records, “Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” What stops you from having a humble mind to live obediently by the word of God? With desire, prayerfully ask that God will enable you to humble yourself as a child to be obedient and not miss heaven.
With humility to be obedient to the word of God is the only way to claim the promise of God.
Among the promises of God for the ones with humility records in Psalm 25:9, “The humble He guides in justice, and the humble He teaches His way.” Proverbs 29:23 states, “A man’s pride will bring him low, But the humble in spirit will retain honor.”
It is a priority to be humble before God.
2 Chronicles 7:14 states, “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
In your praying, seeking the face of God, and turning away from wickedness without humbling before God is possible not to provoke the promise of God.
The book of Ezra points out fasting as one of the ways to humble to seek the face of God. Ezra 8:21, “Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions.”
Before God, prayer answers to one with desires.
Psalm 119:34 states, “Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart.”
Prayer for today: Ask for the understanding to keep and observe the word of God with the whole heart of the word.