Humble Yourself

I want to touch on a subject many people would rather not hear about, being humble.  Our flesh is a nasty slave master, so to speak, it will rise up and cause havoc whenever it gets a chance to.  When Christians allow their flesh to guide them they will be capable of most anything.  The problem is when the flesh has its way then we will most likely grieve God’s Holy Spirit.  Flesh is full of pride, arrogance and rebelliousness and a host of other sinful things.  Walking in the flesh will surely cause us to be separated from the Lord!  One of the remedies for this, before you allow the flesh to grip you and drag you down the wrong path, is to humble yourself and to have a healthy fear of the Lord.

I want everyone that reads this to know that God loves you more than I can explain.  God loves you with a fervent and jealous love and He will not let you go without a fight.  In fact if you are a child of God through rebirth there is only one way you will ever be separated from Him and that is if you choose to reject Him and walk away, there is no other way possible to be completely separated from your heavenly Father!  

I looked up the word humble in the Webster’s Dictionary and this is what it said, "a. lowly; meek; not proud, arrogant or assuming; modest."  You compare these with the flesh and they are complete opposites.  If this is true, why don’t more people pray to be humble?  I think the answer is that they are afraid of what the Lord might do to humble them, or else they have allowed the flesh to control them for so long they don’t even think about being humble.  If you are walking in the Spirit you will become a humble person, over time, because you are being changed into the Lord’s image and likeness.  Jesus was a very humble person, that doesn’t mean He was weak or a doormat, just humble.  A humble and gentle spirit is what we all need as Christians, it is far more important than all the outward beauty we can possess.

We all know how powerful Jesus was, He could calm a storm by a spoken word.  If He was proud and arrogant the whole outcome would have been different, instead of saving and forgiving us He could have destroyed us.  In Philippians 2: verses 5–11 it says, “Your attitude should be the same that Christ Jesus had.  Though He was God He did not demand and cling to His rights as God.  He made himself nothing; He took the humble position of a slave and appeared in human form.  And in human form He obediently humbled Himself even further by dying a criminal’s death on a cross. Because of this God raised Him up to the heights of Heaven and gave Him a name that is above every other name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow in Heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father.”  Did you notice it said when Jesus humbled Himself, God raised Him up to the heights of Heaven.  

The Word says in Proverbs 16:18, “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”  In James 4:5-7 it says, “Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, ‘The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously’?  But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: ‘God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’  Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”  So don’t cause the Lord to humble you.  James 4:10 says, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.”

God bless and have a great day.