Humility Learned

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Good morning, Lord

Verse of the Day: Matthew 16:25

or whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Memory verse: John 10:27-28...27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

Today's reading: JOB 8-10 ACTS 8:26-40

Humility Learned

Micah 6:8 ►He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Walking humbly before God-how does that fit in with the fruit of the Spirit?

Galatians 5:22-23 The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

But humility is not one of these-why? If we walk humbly before our God, it is because of the fruit of the Spirit. Humility is the fruit of the Spirit.

If we are full of love and joy and peace, then peace is our governor-

Isaiah 60:17 ►Instead of bronze I will bring you gold, and silver in place of iron. Instead of wood I will bring you bronze, and iron in place of stones. I will make peace your governor and well-being your ruler.

If we are patient, it is in humility. We are learning patience.

If we are kind, it is from humility. Peace is our governor-we have learned to walk in His peace. This is in humility learned.

Goodness comes from the heart of God and humbling ourselves before Him day after day gives us access to the goodness of God's heart.

Faithfulness comes from being humble and day by day knowing better the One to whom we pledge our faith.

Gentleness is born of God's mercy.

Matthew 9:13 ►But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'

Self-control draws strength from humility. Humility before our God is a learning process. It is a life-long learning process.

Learning what mercy is in God's heart and why He wants us to be merciful fashions our own self-control little by little.

With every struggle and trial of life we learn different facets of humility. God takes us from a perspective of learned confidence and puts in a new place of uncertainty in our knowledge and understanding where we must confess total dependence on Him which is His fertile ground in us for learning more of His desire for our humility before Him. We cannot single out any one of the nine fruits of the Spirit to learn at a time or justice or humility or mercy-we must go before God in total dependence and He will lead us in the paths of righteousness for His name sake-not ours.

Trust Him with it all-all the time.

In Christ Jesus...

...because He loves us...

Father in Heaven,

Strip me of my ego-my self-full-ness-

I confess my total need for You. My hope is You.

Great and merciful God!

In the name Of Christ Jesus my Lord,

Amen