FAITH CAPSULE: With humility, cure worldliness.
Deuteronomy 8
One living life to be humble before God is taking a position to be blessed by God. Also, not living life to be humble before God will experience the curse by God.
James 4:10 warns all, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.”
What is your position before God?
TAKING A POSITION NOT TO HUMBLE GOD
A hindrance agent to hinder others from serving God is not a humble one before God and will not experience the blessing of God.
Pharaoh of Egypt was a hindrance, as he denied the Israelites from serving God. The Bible records, “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.” (Exodus 10:3)
Pharaoh repeatedly denied the Israelites from serving God to experience a curse but not the blessing of God.
CONFESSING INIQUITY BEFORE GOD IS AN ACT TO HUMBLE GOD
One that is admitting wrongdoing before God is confessing iniquity to prompt the remembrance of God His promises that is good.
The word of Leviticus 26:40-42 that answers for to the Israelites also speaks to all about 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— 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.”
It is worthy to confess iniquity to experience the blessing of God that remembers with favor and visits with salvation.
TO BE CONTENT IS TO BE HUMBLE
The word of God identifies Moses, “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.” (Numbers 12:3) Moses was content the catalyst to be humble before God. Exodus 2:21 testifies Moses, “Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses.” One with content is satisfied regardless of position in the way of life. The challenge of Moses made him flee from the Palace of Pharaoh in Egypt to Midian. The spirit of content spirit humbled Moses to be available to answer the calling of God.
CHALLENGES WILL HUMBLE ONE
The challenges in the journey of life will humble one to engage the test. The response to the test will demonstrate the heart to God by keeping the word of God. Are you experiencing troubling challenges? Deuteronomy 8:2 records, “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 one to become humble before God and be blessed by God.
Humility cures worldliness!
Prayer for today: With a desire, ask to be enabled to be humble before God.