Humility and Pride

Humility and Pride

What is it to be humble and what is it to be proud?

According to the dictionary:

To be humble is to be conscious of one’s failings and being modest.

And being proud is being arrogant or haughty or on the other side of pride to feel pleasure or satisfaction in something or someone.

Throughout the Bible, God clearly tells us He is pleased when we are humble and that we as children of God are called to be humble. We are created in God’s image and so we should be like Him.

What is it to be humble in the sight of God?

Being humble is knowing and admitting your faults, or to consider others superior to oneself.

It is knowing that in God’s eyes all were equally created and that it is only by God’s grace that anyone of us is saved.

In 2 Chronicles 7:14, God says: “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn form their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.

You can only live in the fullness of God’s presence, redeem from your sins and fully live the life God has planned for you when you are humble!

How can you make God the King and Lord of your life if you are not humble?

How can you fully obey God if you are not humble?

How can you confess and repent of your sins if you are not humble?

How can you be the light to others if you are not humble?

One of the things that acts as a barrier between God and His children is many times pride or to be proud.

Pride is one of the things that led to the devil's rebellion against God.

Pride can lead to one getting completely ‘off’ God’s plan and not living for His fullness.

Let us learn what the word of God teaches us: James 4: 6 and 1Peter 5: 5, Jesus Christ is our perfect example: John 13: 1-17...

Jesus said in vers.13 "you call me Master and Lord and you are right, because I am", if  Jesus being Master and Lord, humbled

himself to the point of washing the disciples feet, we can learn that this is what God want for us all, to be humble, to have that spirit of humility.

God resist the proud in every way, but gives grace to the humble.

In 1 Corinthians 1:31, we are told to only boost and take pride in God.

Unfortunately we many times have pride in every other aspect but are humble were we are called to be proud.

Take pride in God but humble yourself.

Humbleness is something we all need to pray for. We need to ask God to increase in us the humbleness we are required to have, so that we may become more and more like Him each day and please Him more and more.

In Philippians 2:3, God says:

“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.”

Take a few seconds to look at your life to look at yourself.

Are you humble?

Are you humble enough to admit you have done wrong, repent and many times try fixing your mistake and learning from it?

Are you humble enough to surrender your life completely to God?

Are you humble enough to realize that you are a sinner and needs salvation?

Are you humble enough to see that without God you are nothing?

Are you humble enough to be able to spread the Gospel to others even your enemies?

Are you humble enough to obey and live for God?

May we all seek God with all our hearts and humble ourselves in His presence for without Him we are nothing. May we all allow God to freely work in us to take out all the garbage and replace it with life. We need to humble ourselves as God’s children so that His anointing may fall on us and so that we may arise to do and follow God’s plan.

In 1 Peter 5:5-6, the youth is directly addressed about humbleness and pride, take this verse and meditate on it, pray to God about it and live it. Let the Bible talk to you.

“Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,

‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.”