I want to share something with you that I discovered. You can pray to God all day long. You can rejoice in the Lord. You can give thanks to Him for everything but still have a proud heart. Being humble is not what God is doing for you, or what you are doing for others. It’s a settling down of your heart and knowing what God has said is true. You being humble is walking as He walked, you are walking with Him. “He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God.”
Walking humbly with Jesus is walking in peace, Jesus is the King of Peace. To do justly is to walk in righteousness. “Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.” James writes about this, “Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.” If you exalt yourself, God will humble you, but if you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, He will exalt you. My friends, that is the best place to live having God exalt you. “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.” Peter writes about humbling yourself this way. “Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.” Humbling yourself doesn’t mean you have to agree with what is against the Lord, but being humble is agreeing with God regardless of the cost. You don’t have to agree that you are a sinner saved by grace, that doesn’t humble you. What humbles you is you agree with God that Jesus paid the price for my sins, once forever, and I can never see myself as a sinner anymore because you have made me brand new. “But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” We see my friends, we can no longer see ourselves in the old man, a sinner, but a new man created in Christ. “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
I pray that your eyes of understanding be enlightened to the new man. He is the one who is walking humbly with Jesus. Be blessed, my friends.