Meditate On
…“God resists the proud, but gives grace to
the humble.”
1 Peter 5:5
God
Uses The Humble
In his first 40 years as an Egyptian prince
who was looked up to and admired, Moses thought that he knew everything. The
Bible says that he was “mighty in words and deeds” (Acts 7:22). Yet, God could
not use him to deliver His people from slavery in Egypt.
But in the next 40 years, something
happened to Moses. He had fled Egypt after killing an Egyptian who was beating
a Hebrew, and went to dwell in the Midian desert. He became a shepherd and was
no longer considered mighty in words nor deeds. In fact, he had even become a
stutterer (Exodus 4:10). And it was at this point in his life, when he probably
thought that he was a has-been, and that his glory-days were behind him, that
God appeared to him and said, “...I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring
My people...out of Egypt” (Exodus 3:10). God could finally use Moses!
The Bible tells us that “God resists the
proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Beloved, God will not impose His grace
on us. Whenever we want to depend on ourselves and our wisdom to succeed, He
will step aside and allow us to do so. His grace is given to those who humbly
acknowledge that they cannot succeed in their own strengths and abilities. So when
we let go of our self-efforts and humbly depend on His grace, He will take over
and do in us and through us what we cannot do for ourselves!
BLESSINGS
JOSEPH PRINCE