Trust (Daily Devotional)

Welcome, thank you for connecting as we study God’s word regarding humility. We’ve seen that God wants us to imitate His Son, the Lord Jesus who walked in humility. We see that God wants us to choose obedience, surrender and humility and to also regard others whom He has positioned in our lives. Today, I want to encourage us to continue in humility. Let’s look at the passage from 1 Peter chapter 5, verses 6 and 7, it says, ‘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.’ We have already seen that we need to humble ourselves before God. We humble ourselves before God when we walk in His ways, when we are submitted to what the word of God says, when we choose to pray and invite God into every circumstance and every situation of our lives, when we express our humility through our acts of worship such as fasting or giving etc., we express our humility in all of these ways. We are also told that there can be some situations where we need to choose humility instead of coming across as boastful and self-willed, we do the right thing and we leave the results to God and trust that God will work everything out for good on our behalf. We all encounter situations like that and I believe that the writer here is talking about these situations where he says, when we make a choice and walk in humility, there will come a time when we will reap the reward of humility, when God Himself will exalt us and in due time, it says. So, we need patience along with humility to trust God, it is really an act of faith to wait upon the Lord and continue to do what is right in His sight. As we look at the lives of people like Hannah, she had a lot of taunting which she had to face from Peninnah, the other wife of Elkanah. But then, we see that she chose to go to God with her situation and continue to humble herself before the Lord and trust Him that it will be God who will give her the reward of a child and we see how God rewarded her and she came through victorious through that opposing circumstance of her life. Similarly, in the story of Esther, we see how Mordecai, he was somebody who was doing the right thing and though he had done good for the land and the king, there were plots which were trying to bring him down and yet God was a God who brought down the proud but God exalted Mordecai in due time. There are many such examples in God’s word for us when people chose to do what is right and they waited upon the Lord. And in due time, when we humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, God Himself will exalt us. Walk in faith, walk in humility. Let’s pray together, Father, we thank you for the encouragement from the lives of different people. We know that when we trust you and do the right thing, you will bring exaltation our way. We praise you in advance for it, in Jesus’s name we pray, Amen.

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