Manifesting Increased Glory: Being Humble and Patient
With Others
Be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other,
making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. (Ephesians 4:2
The Living Bible)
Yesterday
we began to share with you inspiring thoughts from the book of Ephesians as the
Holy Spirit instructed us this month to meditate upon. In the scripture above
the Spirit of God admonishes us to be humble and gentle. This is because the
attitude of humility opens us up to His greater glory! Sometimes people don’t
know that their reasoning is affected and corrupted because of a wrong attitude.
If you have the right attitude of humility, God will teach you wisdom, but for
the one who is proud and haughty, He’ll resist you. The Bible says God resists
the proud, but gives grace to the humble. As you demonstrate humility this
month, you’ll receive wonderful, beautiful, and creative thoughts from God, and
your life will go from one level of glory to another. WOW!
Pride
goes before a fall. The man that’s full of pride can be destroyed within a
split second. David said, “I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading
himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I
sought him, but he could not be found” (Psalm 3 7:35- 36). But concerning the
righteous he says “Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of
that man is peace (Psalm 37:3 7).
Peace
there means “shalom” in Hebrew, which refers to prosperity, divine health,
favour, joyfulness, absolute wellbeing, etc. That’s the life of the man whose
heart is perfect before the Lord, who serves God with humility of heart. God
detests pride. Therefore, this month you must train yourself to be a humble man
or woman.
Some
people say it’s difficult for rich and successful people to be humble; that’s
not true. Truly rich and successful people are usually the expression of
humility; they’re often very humble. That’s the reason God exalted them to high
levels of glory and success in the first place. That they’ve been successful is
proof that they must have been humble, since God resists the proud and gives
more grace to the humble. Of course this doesn’t refer to people who may have
used the wrong means to project themselves in any way; that’s false success and
it will surely fade away. Understand that humility is the pathway to greatness.
Learn to be humble for as you do so you’ll experience increased glory in your
life this October. If you want the Lord to keep promoting and exalting you in
life by increasing His glory upon you, then train yourself to be humble.
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