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
