How important is it to be humble as you grow your ministry and your business?
Below is an excerpt from Green Grove Baptist Church’s Prayer Ministry leader Sis. Donna Stove.
“Humility is not our culture's most valued asset or most desired character quality. But, humility is what is demanded -- not so much because it's commanded (though that would be enough), but because we've "earned" our need of it. Every year brings another wave of major failures in morality, character, and spirituality. Even on our best days, we all fall short of God's holiness. Rather than progressing culturally, we find ourselves slipping. Our need to approach God with humility is "earned"! So let's be humble and call upon the Lord, throwing off our sin and seeking after him!
Prayer:
Holy and Almighty God, your deeds are awesome, your faithfulness is overwhelming, and your mercy and grace are such blessings. Yet we come to you knowing that you hear us, despite the incredible distance between you and us, between your worth and holiness and our lack. We confess that we, and our culture and country around us, have made a mess of what you so wonderfully blessed us with. We come humbly asking that you reassert yourself in our nation at this time in clearly recognizable ways. We ask this in faith through Jesus' name. Amen.”
Amen!
As I read this prayer this morning, I my thoughts turned to humility. I get confused sometimes about what humility really means. I found a definition online (love Google) and it says: “Humility is the quality that lets us go more than halfway to meet the needs and demands of others.”
That definition makes me feel better because that is how I believe that I am. I am willing to go more than halfway in my relationships as a woman, a wife, a mother and an entrepreneur. I have learned over the years through God’s leading to be more caring and understanding of the other person’s needs. It has placed me in situations where I take on more than I should, but the Lord has blessed me in the end for those choices.
But then again there is this quote: "Humility is a strange thing. The moment you think you've got it, you've lost it.
Scripture verse from Job gives another look at the word Humble.
Job 8:7 "Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be."
From a lowly beginning you can rise to success. Why do we always equate the word prosperity with success? Because prosperity according to Webster is the condition of being successful or thriving.
The word for today is Humility. Be humble as you go through your day. Be open to the challenge of growing in the Lord and be gracious as you do what you do.
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