Always Be Humble

Your pride has fooled you, you who live in the hollow places of the cliff. Your home is up high, you who say to yourself, ‘No one can bring me down to the ground.’ Even if you fly high like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord. (Obadiah 1:3, 4) These two verses serve as one of the best examples to not become too arrogant. God is the giver of all things. We deceive ourselves in believing all that we have & do is of our own power. Remember Job said "The Lord gives and the Lords takes away. (Job 1:21) Job knew best about things being taken away. Now practically all that Job had wasn't taken away because he was arrogant. It was taken away to show the faithfulness of God's servant. All through this process Job stayed humble and praised the Lord. We should also not be arrogant about our appearances. Thomas a Kempis wrote in his book, The Imitation of Christ, don't take too much pride in your appearances to the point of vanity for the human body can become weak and sickly. This is exactly demonstrating the Obadiah verses. Don't mistake me for saying we shouldn't take pride in our appearances, we always want to look our best for the Lord, but what we don't want to do is be vain in our appearances because then we are putting ourselves above God. C.S. Lewis said "True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less." Very powerful words and I love how he switched a few simple words and it made all the difference. Humility is something to be strived towards and improved upon daily, only through the power of Jesus Christ can we achieve humility. It's not easy brothers and sisters, believe me. There is the humanity within all of us that wants to be popular or be praised for our great achievements and so on. I've always thought, if your achievements are worthy let them brag of themselves. I mean by this don't brag of them yourself, let them speak for themselves or other people will brag of them for you. But remember to always give the Heavenly Father the praise and glory in all that you do. Even if no one notices what you do it is often better that way because be reassured in knowing the Heavenly Father sees and his proud, and loves you dearly. With that I leave you until tomorrow. Remember brothers and sisters...how will you improve the present moment?