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Humbling Yourself
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James 4:8-10 Come near to God and he will come near to you. You are sinners, so clean sin out of your lives. You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure. Be sad, be sorry, and cry! Change your laughter into crying. Change your joy into sadness. Be humble before the Lord, and he will make you great.
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Might I ask you today, is yours a life that, by the end of it, will have impacted the lives of others for eternity? Because if you’re someone who believes in Jesus, then that’s exactly what He’s calling you to do.
But how do you do that? We’re all sinners. We all look in the mirror and see our limitations, our imperfections, our failures. I’ve tried and tried, but I just don’t seem to be making any real difference.
That’s not all that uncommon. So, what’s God’s take? How do we deal with this dilemma and solve it once and for all?
James 4:8-10 Come near to God and he will come near to you. You are sinners, so clean sin out of your lives. You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure. Be sad, be sorry, and cry! Change your laughter into crying. Change your joy into sadness. Be humble before the Lord, and he will make you great.
The answer is simply to draw near to God through prayer and reading His Word to cultivate the sort of rich, dynamic relationship with Him that He means for you to have. Stop this doublemindedness, as though you can chase after the things of this world and have that sort of relationship with God at the same time. Come on.
Be humble before the Lord, and he will make you great.
Friend, He means to change this world one soul at a time … through you.
That’s His Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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