As I sat in church on Easter Sunday, this kept running through my head: without humility there can be no honor.
Throughout the Bible, many verses instruct us to humble ourselves. This is a command for action on our part. We cannot ask God for humility. We can ask Him for help in being humble, but He cannot just impart humility to us. He will not usurp the free will He gave us. But, I do believe, when we ask Him, He will impart the supernatural agape love that enables us to humble ourselves.
To be truly humble means to realize that we cannot do anything apart from God. We are nothing on our own. Humility is obeying Him…doing it His way…no matter what kind of fit our flesh is throwing about it!
Everything in us, as humans, bucks against this. We want everything in our way, when we want it. But God’s plans are usually far different from our own. Walking with the Lord requires a constant lying down of our life…our agenda. Walking with the Lord requires constant honor. Honor requires constant humility. Humility requires the fear of the Lord.
To fear the Lord does not mean to be afraid of Him, but rather to fear being without Him! It means to not want to be apart from Him…not just for eternity so that we believe and call upon Him for salvation, but also, that our sinful ways don’t keep us out of fellowship with Him. When we fear the Lord, we tremble at His Word. We believe every part of it, and therefore, we honor Him.
When we choose this way and honor Him, we are choosing to humble ourselves instead of exalting ourselves. The Lord says that when we humble ourselves, He will exalt us…and when we exalt Him (instead of ourselves or other people); He will draw all men unto Himself.
I see two very sad things happening in the Church today because the above hasn’t become revelation: 1) We are tearing our brothers and sisters down and 2) We are trying to use worldly formulas to reach the lost.
Neither of these things are coming from the heart of God and everyone loses when they are in operation.
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