PT-3 "Humility" (Eph. 4:2)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/24/2019 7:14 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                                     Focus:  PT-3 “Humility”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                             Reference:  Eph. 4:2

 

            Message of the verse:  “2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,”

 

            We are looking at the different characterizes of the worthy walk, beginning with humility and then we will move onto the other four essential characteristics of the worthy walk after we finish writing about humility.  Humility could be characterized as the most important characteristic for if believers are not humble then the other four characteristics will be difficult if not impossible to live out.

 

            In our last SD I wrote about how a young student asked John MacArthur when he stopped having trouble with pride, and in today’s SD I want to, first of all give a quote from MacArthur to help answer that question.  “Pride is the supreme temptation from Satan, because pride is at the heart of his own evil nature.  Consequently, Satan makes sure that the Christian is never entirely free from the temptation of pride.  We will always be in a battle with pride until the Lord takes us to be with Himself.  Our only protection against pride, and our only source of humility, is a proper view of God.  Pride is the sin of competing with God, and humility is the virtue of submitting to His supreme glory.”

 

            I am not sure why we believers can be so proud, for if we look at our life before we became a believer in Jesus Christ we were pretty pitiful, and the only reason that we became a believer is because of the effectual call that the Spirit of God gave to us that we could not say no to. 

 

            Pride comes in all different forms, and we are tempted to fall into all of these forms of pride, things like being tempted to be proud of our abilities, our possessions, our education, our social status, our appearance, our power, and even our biblical knowledge or religious accomplishments.  The Lord calls us as believers to humility.  Proverbs 15:33b says “And before honor comes humility.”  Proverbs 22:4 “The reward of humility and the fear of the LORD Are riches, honor and life.”  One more from Proverbs 27:2 “Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.”

 

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            John MacArthur writes:  “Humility is an ingredient of all spiritual blessing.  Just as every sin has its roots in pride, every virtue has its roots in humility.  Humility allows us to see ourselves as we are, because it shows us before God as He is.  Just as pride is behind every conflict we have with other people and every problem of fellowship we have with the Lord, so humility is behind every harmonious human relationship, every spiritual success, and every moment of joyous fellowship with the Lord.”

 

            In our next SD we will begin with a story that will help us better understand humility.

 

Bible verse that goes with our last quotation:  “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).”

 

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