HONORABLY
HUMBLE
BREAD
5 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.” 6 Humble
yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due
time. 7 Cast all your anxiety on
him because he cares for you.
1 Peter 5:5-7 (NIV)
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. James
4:10 (NIV)
11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled,
and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Matthew
23:11-12 (NIV)
11 “For
everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be
exalted.” Luke 14:11 (NIV)
5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not
consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very
nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled
himself and became obedient to death-- even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest
place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:5-11 (NIV)
4 Trust in the LORD
forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal. 5 He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays
the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust. Isaiah
26:4-5 (NIV)
13 “But the tax collector stood
at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and
said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’
14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home
justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he
who humbles himself will be exalted.” Luke 18:13-14 (NIV)
33 The LORD's
curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous.
34 He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. Proverbs 3:33-34 (NIV)
34 He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. Proverbs 3:33-34 (NIV)
4 For the LORD
takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with salvation. Psalm
149:4 (NIV)
1 This is what the LORD
says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house
you will build for me? Where will my resting place be? 2 Has
not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?” declares the LORD. “This is the one I esteem: he who
is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.” Isaiah 66:1-2
(NIV)
2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient,
bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:2 (NIV)
8 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD
require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Jesus
found His glory in taking the form of a servant. There is nothing so divine and heavenly as
being the servant and helper of all.
Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very
nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and
the root of every virtue…Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the
lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and
failure. Humility is not so much a grace
or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the
right attitude before God and allows Him as God to do all. Brother, are you clothed with humility? Ask your daily life. Ask Jesus.
Ask your friends. Ask the world. And begin to praise God that there is opened up
to you in Jesus a heavenly humility of which you have hardly known, and through
which, a heavenly blessedness you possibly have never yet tasted, can come to
you.” Andrew Murray
“And
if you don’t lie prostrate on the ground before that cross, you have never seen
it: if you are not humbled in the
presence of Jesus, you don’t know Him.
You were so lost that nothing could save you but the sacrifice of God’s
only begotten. Think of that, and as
Jesus lowered Himself for you, bow yourself in lowliness at His feet. A sense of Christ’s amazing love to us has a
greater tendency to humble us than even the conscious awareness of our own
guilt……Pride cannot live beneath the cross.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“It is a
contradiction to be a true Christian and not to be humble.” Richard Baxter
“Those
who know God will be humble. Those who
know themselves cannot be proud.” John
Trapp
“It’s really your ugly pride that makes you afraid. Just bow in humility — and you’ll rise up in courage. It’s only pride’s hunger for perfection that paralyzes a heart. It’s being enslaved to perfectionism that keeps us enslaved to fear. Pride is fear’s father — and pride is the kin to all cowards. Courage for the impossible can only be found in the possibility of humility. Because ‘This is the one God esteems: he who is humble…’ (Isaiah 66:2). Courage lives in the heart of the lowly… those who can embrace humility and the possibility of imperfection … because that needy place is the place we meet God. Humility births courage and is brother to the brave.” Ann Voskamp
“Strive to turn
your heart from loving things that are seen, and to set it upon things that are
not seen…How much better is a lowly peasant who serves God than a proud
philosopher who watches the stars and neglects knowing himself…We must not
trust every word of others or feeling within ourselves, but cautiously and patiently
try the matter, whether it be of God.
The more humble a man is in himself, and the more obedient toward God,
the wiser will he be in all things, and the more shall his soul be at peace.” Thomas a Kempis
“Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as
humility.” Jonathan Edwards
“For those who would
learn God’s ways, humility is the first thing, humility is the second thing,
humility is the third.” Augustine
“Because Jesus
Christ came into the world clothed in humility, He will always be found among
those who are clothed with humility.” A.W. Tozer
HEART SAVOR
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God desires for me to walk humbly with Him.
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God crowns the humble with salvation.
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God humbles the proud but gives grace to the humble.
