Walk Humbly With Your God

Biblical Wisdom For Godly Living (Part 8)

God instructs us through Peter as he says,

“...and all of you, serve each other in humility, for “God sets himself against the proud, but he shows favor to the humble. So humble yourselves under the might power of God, and in His good time He will honor you. Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about what happens to you.” (I Peter 5:5b-7 NLT)

“Don’t be selfish; don’t live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Don’t think only about your own affairs, but be interested in other, too, and what they are doing.” (Philippians 2: 3-4 NLT)

Apparently there is a relationship between selfishness and the absence of humility. But let’s be clear about this, no one outside of you, can humble you. Humbleness is not a lowly state, in fact as we have seen through scripture it is the prelude to honor and exaltation. God is teaching us that the correct perspective of who we are is the key to fulfilling His requirements for our lives. Philippians 2 goes on to say

“Your attitude should be the same that Christ Jesus had. Though He was God, He did not demand and cling to His rights as God. He made himself nothing; he took the humble position of a slave and appeared in human form.”

Jesus assumed this position for the benefit of others, namely you and me.

This is the root of humbleness; it seeks the benefit of others, even when it will not tangibly benefit us. We have the example of Jesus Christ to follow as we seek to understand and become the people that God has created us and called us to become as we walk humbly with God through life to life eternal.