When someone mentions humility, what immediately comes to mind? Humility isn’t a favorable characteristic in modern culture. In fact, the culture openly rewards pride and arrogance while casting the humble to the curb. God is different. Humility is valuable to God. He wants to see humility in the hearts of his people. So much so that he rewards them openly for it.

God also wants to bless his people abundantly. The danger of that blessing, at least on our part, is that we take the credit for ourselves. Instead of being humble and contrite, we become prideful and arrogant. Pride is destructive. Arrogance is poison. Therefore God humbles his people to keep them from both. That’s what we’ll see in today’s text.

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Posted on: September 1, 2024