But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

Job 16:5 (NIV)

 

Always Humility

by Cathy Vinson

 When testing is heightened pockets of pride in our inmost thoughts rise to the surface. They are revealed through cares. Cares (from merizo) "draw in different directions, distract, hence signifies that which causes this." When we perceive the risk of loss in a variety of major investments, we are stressed. These investments may be in what we have put into relationships
and the Kingdom of God. The fear of these losses clutches at us.


"Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God...cast all your anxiety on Him" (1 Pet 5:6).

The accumulation of worries drives us to long for what humility offers, to be cared for, for Someone mighty to take control. To cast means to cast UPON in the same way that garments were placed on the colt in Luke 19:35. Being humble signifies "low-lying. It is used always in a good sense in the N.T." It is always right to be hunble.

The risk of releasing those things we truly value seems quite expensive. How can we do it? What convinces us to come "under"? The Mighty hand. Consider this might, "strength, relative and manifested power." In Ephesians 1 His mighty strength was EXERTED in raising Jesus. In Luke 1:51 mighty deeds were PERFORMED by His arm. His might is manifested!

In the furnace the sorrows that come from hidden pride are being purged from our clutches. Instead we are driven to the blessing of humility UNDER where we always belong.

*excerpts from Vine's AN EXPOSITORY DICT OF N T WORDS
"He has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts"

(Luke  1:51)

The accumulation of worries drives us to long for what humility offers, to be cared for, for Someone mighty to take control.

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