Having A Right Perspective
Well, He's at it again. This day's lesson is on....you guessed it...humility. It also brought up a connection to a previous Bible study I did last Fall. Our ladies Bible study group studied the book of James. James 1 talks about wisdom. Well, I don't think I noticed the part that hunility plays in wisdom. A couple of chapters later, in James 3:13-16, it states ~ "Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice."
Humility is wise because it gives a right perspective of who we are, especially in relation to other people. Philippians 2:3 - 8 says "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!
Beth Moore states, "Life can be so confusing when it is all about us". I totally get that. When I concentrate on me - my wants, my desires, my selfish ambition, etc., it throws off my perspective. I start to see others as competition rather than companions. Through these past two days of lessons God has spoken to me through his Word to remind me that it is all about Him and not about me.
Humility is wise because it gives a right perspective of who we are, especially in relation to other people. Philippians 2:3 - 8 says "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!
Beth Moore states, "Life can be so confusing when it is all about us". I totally get that. When I concentrate on me - my wants, my desires, my selfish ambition, etc., it throws off my perspective. I start to see others as competition rather than companions. Through these past two days of lessons God has spoken to me through his Word to remind me that it is all about Him and not about me.
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