Humbling ….

 

Humbling….

Health crisis’s are humbling…especially for adults…it one thing to change the diapers of your babies as they are growing…making sure they are clean and taken care of…but taking care of adults in their needs is a bit harder…I took care of my mother after her stroke, colon cancer and it was hard for both of us…not the physical part, but her complete dependence upon another for a time…she was such a strong person to be weakened so much…then came my husband after that, until I couldn’t physically do it anymore and needed help…then my father ….all weakened to the point of needing everything…. Then this last year for myself and my children helped me in my health crisis….helplessness…

A book came out in the 1980’s, “Love you Forever “, by 

Robert Munsch speaks to this cycle…caring through the years of. Life…it looks like a children’s book, but it touches the heart of all ages…caring for one another through time…

Isaiah writes about humbleness …as do other authors in the scriptures…

It is our attitude of humility or not…that is what the Lord looks for…those who are humble, with a contrite heart…who heart is responsive, teachable, seeking God’s guidance for our lives …

We have to realize that all comes from God’s hand…and humble ourselves to that…He is the author and finisher of our faith…nothing circumvents Him…and we are humbled before Him…

Thank YOU….

 This is what the Lord says:“Heaven is my throne,and the earth is my footstool.Where is the house you will build for me?

Where will my resting place be? Has not my hand made all these things,and so they came into being?”declares the Lord.“

These are the ones I look on with favor:those who are humble and contrite in spirit,and who tremble at my word.

Isa.66.1-2

 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)

Num.12.3

 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you.

Deut.8.2,Deut.8.3,Deut.8.16

 The Lord sends poverty and wealth;he humbles and he exalts.

1Sam.2.7

 Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because you humbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the Lord.

2Chr.34.27

 Good and upright is the Lord;therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. 

He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithfultoward those who keep the demands of his covenant. 

For the sake of your name, Lord,forgive my iniquity, though it is great.

Ps.25.8-11

  The Lord sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground. For the Lord takes delight in his people;he crowns the humble with victory.

Ps.147.6,Ps.149.4

 Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land,you who do what he commands.Seek righteousness, seek humility;perhaps you will be shelteredon the day of the Lord’s anger. 

But I will leave within youthe meek and humble.The remnant of Israel will trust in the name of the Lord.

Zeph.2.3,Zeph.3.12

 For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Luke.14.11

 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.

Rom.12.3

 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

Eph.4.2

 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

Jas.4.10

 Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble. 

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.

1Pet.3.8,1Pet.5.6

The matchless name of Jesus…

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