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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Humility

Devotional Thoughts and Teaching Illustrations About Humility




Devotional Thoughts
Humility is a quality that can often feel incompatible with today’s society. The news is chock-full of billionaires, celebrities, tech giants, and an assortment of other oversized egos demanding our attention and praise. We seem to be expected to also aspire to those levels of hubris and vanity, but holding ourselves in a more modest regard can be beneficial in the long run.

That’s not to say we shouldn’t love or be confident in ourselves. Humility is often mistaken for being self-critical, but these are two different things. We can be gentle toward ourselves and proud of our accomplishments while still remaining open to the ideas that we aren’t perfect, that we don’t know everything, and that we always have room for improvement.

Another common misconception equates being humble with weakness. There’s a lot of strength to be found in humility, but it’s not the ostentatious sort of strength we may be accustomed to. Rather, it’s a quiet strength that underlies and bolsters our actions.

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1 Peter 5:5 - Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Colossians 3:12 - Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 4:2 - with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
James 4:10 ESV Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
James 4:6 ESV But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Micah 6:8 ESV He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Philippians 2:3 - Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Philippians 2:5 You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
Proverbs 11:2 ESV When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Proverbs 15:33 (MSG) Fear-of-God is a school in skilled living— first you learn humility, then you experience glory.
Proverbs 18:12 (MSG) Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.
Proverbs 22:4 (MSG) The payoff for meekness and Fear-of- God is plenty and honor and a satisfying life.
Proverbs 22:4 ESV The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
Proverbs 22:4 Humility is the fear of the Lord; its wages are riches and honor and life.
Proverbs 29:23 (MSG) Pride lands you flat on your face; humility prepares you for honors.
Psalm 25:9 ESV He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Romans 12:3 (MSG) I’m speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it’s important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.


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