| 1Peter 5:5-6 "Be clothed with humility, for 'God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble' Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God that He may exalt you in due time." Humble- Having or expressing a sense of inferiority, dependance or unworthiness. Humility- Act of Submission Meek- Of gentle and long-suffering deposition. I think about this verse alot and I think hard. Many times I've been told I need to humble myself. MAny times I've prayed that I would be. I've felt that humbleness meant that I need to be quiet and calm not hyper active and loud as I am. I've cried on this verse, feeling that I could never be that. "I'm just not built that way" I'd say. I felt I couldn't be quiet and calm, I couldn't be the proper little woman you saw in victorian pictures who never spoke their mind and just followed their man no matter what. That just isn't me. Then I read 1 Peter 5:5-6 and the part that says "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of GOD" stands out to me. I need to humble myself under God's mighty hand, I need to serve God. I've been looking at this verse as though it was out of my own deeds that I could achieve humility, but I've learned that it is out of my submission to the Lord that I will learn to be humble. It's through His Spirit that I will learn to submit myself to His "pleasing and perfect will". |
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