Do not be afraid, I have good news! And that news today is, humility is the way forward. For December, for each day, we’re taking a chapter that reflects the day, and reading out of Luke. So December 14th, today we’re gonna read Luke chapter 14, and it says, I’m gonna read this out loud, it’s just a section, it’s verses 8-11.
If you have your Bible read along with me. “When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this person your seat.’ (That might be a little embarrassing, right?) Then humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. But when you are invited, take the lowest place so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests. For all those who (listen to this, I’m just gonna,) for all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
Man, Jesus was such a prime example, the greatest example of this, that He is the, I mean, the greatest person that ever walked this earth. He was fully God and He was fully man. No one was like Him. And we see, this is His words, this is His advice to us. This is what He encourages us to do, is to come and to take the lowest place. And Jesus doesn’t just talk the talk, He walks the walk. Right? He shows us this by example, that He comes and He sits with the least of these, that He comes for the sinners. He didn’t come to exalt Himself and to be the greatest speaker, and to come to the highest religious leaders and get the highest paid conference, right? No, He came to come walk the streets, to literally be homeless. Like He went from place to place, to love and to serve, to be a servant for all, right?
And there’s a difference between pride and confidence. My friend Sarah, you’ll see her on these videos, she had a really like, mind blowing revelation that she shared with me where she said, “Confidence is knowing you can do it.” So if you’re speaking, or you’re prophesying, or you’re leading worship, or you’re pastoring, or whatever it is God’s called you to do, you’re painting. It’s knowing you can do it, but not having to be the one to do it, right? Not having to be seen and validated in it. Right? And so we see in 1 Peter 5:6 it says, “Clothe yourself with humility. God opposes the proud, but gives grace and favor for the humble.”
So I wanna encourage you. Take a self check today. Do I look like Jesus? Am I leading like Jesus? Am I living like Jesus, or am I living off the opinion and the level of man where I stand? No. Let’s lead with humility. Let’s choose humility. Let’s be clothed and marked with humility.
I just pray for my friends right now, Father, that pride would just leave in Jesus’ name and we would come with humble, surrendered hearts to you, that we would be filled with all the things that you have for us. In Jesus’ name, amen.
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