SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/19/2017
12:32 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 Be
Humble
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 1 Peter
5:5-7
Message of the
verses: “5 You younger men,
likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with
humility toward one another, for GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE
TO THE HUMBLE. 6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that
He may exalt you at the proper time, 7 casting all your anxiety on Him, because
He cares for you.”
If we desire to be submissive to others then first we
must be submissive to God. In the NASB95
when looking at the verses with all capital letters it means that it is a
quotation from the Old Testament, and in verse five that quote comes from
Proverbs 3:34, and this verse is also quoted in James 4:6. Dr. Wiersbe writes that “it takes grace to
submit to another believer, but God can give that grace if we humble ourselves
before Him.”
Our verse from Proverbs 3:34 tells us that God is opposed
to the proud, and this shows us that pride is a big problem when it comes to
the Lord for He hates pride. It was
pride that caused Satan to fall as he stated that he wanted to be like the Most
High. Whenever I write about pride I
think of a song that was popular many years ago sung by a man named Roger
Miller. In that song Miller sings that “Pride
is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.” I am sure that this is a true statement. 1 John 2:16 states “For all that is in the
world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from
the Father, but is from the world.” Dr.
Wiersbe writes “The only antidote fo pride is the grace of God, and we receive
that grace when we yield ourselves to Him.
The evidence of that grace is that we yield to one another.”
He goes on to write “Submission is an act of faith. We are trusting God to direct our lives and
to work out His purposes in His time.”
When I read this statement it causes me to think that patience is what
is needed. I read that a struggling
believer was praying to the Lord that He would give him patience and so he
prayed “I need patience Lord, and I need it right now.” Evidence to submitting to God shows when we
are committed to serve our fellow believers.
As we look at the end of verse six we see that God says
that He will exalt us “in the proper time.”
Of course the example comes from our Lord as it was first the cross and
then the crown after that. Think about
the life of both Moses and Joseph and you will see that there was a large
amount of time of preparing them for the job that God would call them to
do. Dr. Wiersbe writes “One of the
evidences of our pride is our impatience with God, and one reason for suffering
is that we might learn patience.”
7/19/2017 12:53 PM
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