Love you all, praying for you,
I just love God’s Word – It tells you who God is, it tells you how much God loves you, it tells you what to do, and what to be, it tells you how to succeed, and it tells you what brings God favor, what prevents failure, and what God rewards. If there ever was one thing you would never want to be without, its God’s Word of truth and life! If you had one hallmark of your life, what would it be? What was the hallmark of Jesus? Humility. Though He was equal with God, He didn’t try to keep it, He humbled himself and became obedient unto death even death on a cross. God said, “Be humble.” So how do you do that? Have you ever noticed that anything in life worth doing… is worth practicing? In fact, the only way to become good at something is to practice. You rarely if ever are good at something the first time you try it. And if you are, even if it just somehow comes naturally – practice always gets you better… way better. So what is worth practicing? Anything worth doing. Anything worth doing is worth putting in the time to do it better, to become proficient, expert at it. So what do you practice? Most people practice their craft, or their favorite hobby, but do you ever practice humility? Why practice humility? First you probably should answer… why be humble? Five reasons immediately come to mind. #1 – Jesus was humble – that’s reason enough. #2 - Humility is the beginning of wisdom. That means without humility, you won’t get wisdom. If nothing else to realize God’s Way is better than yours. #3 - God opposes the proud, pride goeth before a fall. If pride comes, the crash is soon coming. #4 - God gives grace to the humble – that means mercy and power – the kind of power that can raise someone from the dead. The force necessary to do whatever He told you to do. You either have more power, or less power – you’re either powerful, or powerless. He gives grace to the humble. #5 – If you humble yourself – you will be exalted… by God. God will do it. (That means – put to a high place, enlarge, make greater). So if you choose the low place, and God will make sure – He puts you in a high place. So how do you practice humility? One really good way is to serve. Serve means inconveniencing yourself – for the good of someone else. Take the time and effort to do something for them that is kind, or what they need, or what they would appreciate, or what they would benefit from. Serve is to do something for someone else, that benefits them not you. Praying that you would ask God today. God, who should I serve? Humble simply means consider others more important than yourself. And to humble yourself – means to take the low place, giving someone else the higher place, the bigger piece, the first turn, the longest turn. Serving someone always puts them and their needs higher than your own. It is perhaps the greatest character forming, character shaping act you can do. Praying that you will ask God, “Who do you want me to serve today, and what do you want me to do for them? What if you served just one person today, or just two people? Your spouse and someone else or your sibling, and one other person? You could actively demonstrate the love of God for them, and you would be practicing humility – the very thing that will get you exalted. Love you all, dad
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