Living In Humility

Thursday, January 4, ‎2023

Good morning, Lord

Verse of the Day:   Titus 2:11-12

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

Memory verse: Romans 8:32 ►

He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

Today's reading: GENESIS 10-12 MATTHEW 4

Living In Humility

Romans 9:16 (ESV)

16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.

Everything we will receive this year is in God's mercy. The greatest achievement in your life this year will not come from your great energies or your resolve...it will come of God's mercy.

Christ came into the world: “in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy” (Romans 15:9). We were born again “according to his great mercy” (1 Peter 1:3). We pray daily “that we may receive mercy” (Hebrews 4:16); and we are now “waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life” (Jude 1:21). If any Christian proves trustworthy, it is “by the Lord’s mercy [he] is trustworthy” (1 Corinthians 7:25).

Luke 17:5–6 (ESV)

5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” 6 And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

The smallest amount of faith brings in God's complete power. It is His power, not our faith, that moves the tree.

Jesus levels the field.

Luke 17:7–10.

“Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’? Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare supper for me, and dress properly, and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterward you will eat and drink’? Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.’”

No matter what strength of faith or size of achievement, we are all on the same level-we are all unworthy servants who are totally dependent on God's limitless mercy...

...utterly dependent on what we do not deserve...but receive...

...because He loves us....

Father in Heaven,

Forgive me my pride and self-dependence. You are the source of all things in my life

Great and fully generous Father,

In the name of Christ Jesus,

Amen