Grace to the humble

The key to true humility is in knowing and accepting who we are and who we are not. We are who God says we are, not what other people say, and also not what our own mind often says we are.
The story of Daniel Ritchie - www.danielritchie.org  Psalm 139

When we learn live and speak from who we really are we also learn to know and respect other people for who they are, and when we learn to listen to their hearts we learn to hear God’s heart for their human suffering.
Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Philippians 2:5 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of being God and took on the status of a servant to humanity, becoming human and staying human. He humbled himself. He didn't claim special privileges. Then God gave him a name above all names.

1Peter 5:5 And all of you serve each other with humble spirits, for God gives grace to those who are humble, but resists those who are proud. If you will humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, in his time he will lift you up.
Jesus was in charge but humbly chose not to be in control, and that is true authority (Matthew 20:20).

Humility is an act of courage and controlling is an act of fear, because it fears disempowerment. But humility expects God to empower its gracious act, releasing healing from God that we can’t always give to another. Our faith points to this reality and promise to work hope in the hearts of other people.

1. God will give you what to say and when to say it. (John 12:49)
a) Does this need to be said?
b) Does it need to be said by me?
c) Does it need to be said by me now?
This also applies to doing as well as speaking. This is doing/working as unto the Lord.

2. We will learn to listen and to hear God’s heart for a suffering humanity.

3. We will be given creative words and deeds of life to speak and to do. Words of faith are creative, and inspiring, and there are more opportunities to speak them than you think. Paul said ‘I have delivered unto you that which I have received from the Lord’. Your life can be an ongoing experience of creative prayer – things said to God and with God and then from God to others. We can bring good out of evil, life out of death, reality out of unreality, like Dan Ritchie did, like Jesus did, and Paul.