Day of Praise

Fr, 07/12/13, "Day of Praise"

2 Chronicles 34:27 - "and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord."

Jeremiah 44:10 - "They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers."

I know it's kind of philosophical, but God clearly says it's critical. So here's something to think about from the two Bible verses above on the Biblical topic of humility and humbling yourself.

The very thing that one person won't humbly confess in order to keep their position with society could be the exact thing that another person will humbly confess in order to keep their position with God.

Similarly, the very thing that one person won't humbly confess in order to keep their position with society could be the exact thing that another person will humbly confess in order to testify to the great things that God has done in their life so that they can invite another broken sinner into the position that God wants to give them through faith in Jesus Christ.

In sum, what God consistently asks us in the Bible when God calls us to humble ourselves is this: who are you most trying to have a relationship with, and why do you so badly want a relationship with them?

The humble person cares more about their position with God than anything else in the world.

Jesus humbled himself so that, through faith in him, we could have an exalted position with God. Therefore, let us be found humbling ourselves so that God, and others that God loves, can be exalted too!

Think about it.

Praise God!

(For an archive of "Day of Praise", please visit my daughter Calley's website at  http://dayofpraisepc.blogspot.com/?m=1)

Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson