Greetings and thank you for joining us today for our daily devotional. We always appreciate this opportunity to spend a few minutes in God’s word and prayer. We are taking time to reflect on the theme of humility, this week. Step lower-get higher. Every time we step lower, God’s grace is going to lift us up higher. 1 Peter chapter 5, verses 5 through 7, the passage we are looking at Peter writes, ‘Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and 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, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.’ I want to emphasize the fact that He will exalt you in due time. He is giving us an invitation, he says all of you be submissive to one another, be clothed with humility but then he says, when you are doing that, when you are humbling yourself before people, you’re submitting yourself to one another, you are being clothed with humility, you are actually humbling yourself under the mighty hand of God, that is a very important thought. It is not that I’m humbling myself before a human person when we submit ourselves to one another, when we are clothed with humility, it is not us bowing down to some other human person. We are doing that knowing that in doing so, we are actually humbling ourselves under the mighty hand of God and say, I’m submitting to you while I’m submitting to your people. When we submit to God, God will lift you up at the right time. In due time meaning the right time. He will lift you up. So, submit under the mighty hand of God, you bow down, submit, humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, He will lift you up in the right time. How do you do that? All of you be submitted to one another and be clothed with humility, that means before other people, we humble ourselves, we walk in humility and in doing that, I’m actually submitting to the mighty hand of God. I can do this knowing that He will lift me up at the right time. When God’s hand lifts you up, no man and no devil can stop that. Nobody can say to God, what are you doing? Why are you lifting this person up? God says, because he humbled himself under my mighty hand and that is why I’m lifting him up, so nobody can stop him. Humility positions you to be lifted up by God. Let’s pray, Father, we ask that you help us walk submitted to one another, clothed with humility knowing we are submitting ourselves to your mighty hand. You are faithful to lift us up in due time, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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