God Gives Grace to the Humble and God Resists to Proud James 4:6
James 4:6 6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:
" God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble."
I am not sure about you but sometimes I find it really hard to sit in a church week after week and listen to sermons that don"t add anything to you. I sat in a church for two years and did that and then in one angry phone call with the pastor I left.
If you haven"t guessed it already, I had pride issues and still need a bit of counselling to get right down to the bottom of it. When you proud though it"s amazing how other people pick it up in your manner. I know a person that is really proud. I think he has a bigger problem then me. I have to laugh as though God measures pride in degrees like us humans. Anyway this guy is so hard to have a conversation with and unless you are agreeing with him he doesn"t want to know you. I often wonder how people that are so proud ever get over it.
I know God has chastised me with an affliction and somewhat he has calmed me down over the last six months and I seem to be travelling batter.
God is not the only one that resists the proud, I find that pastors seem to give you a wide birth when you are proud.
Let me say I am not proud of being proud!
Hey that"s a joke are you laughing.
I used to look at a passage in 1 Peter for years. Jesus would constantly pint me toward it when I was questioning him. It follows exactly after the same verses quoted by James.
1 Peter 5:5-6
5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for
" God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble."
6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, I used to ask Jesus how long I had to be humble under the mighty hand of God before He would exalt me. It"s obvious that He will exalt me, but my idea of due time and His idea of due time might be two separate things.
I have to confess Jesus has given me much grace
I have had a life where for twenty years I had a sexual addiction and Jesus gave me a tremendous amount of grace. I speak of how I overcame that in other articles yet I have to say that Jesus still gives us grace and power from the throne to resist temptation.
I enjoy obeying the Holy Spirit when the Holy Spirit gives me a direction. With all my faults I like to do things right. I know when the Holy Spirit tells me to do something that I am pleasing God when I do it. I have really a loving Father and in the past year I have been able to have conversations with the Father in heaven and He really is a wonderful God to know.
I have a friend called Yianni that operates the prayer site below that has taught me a lot about having a simple relationship with God. To be able to converse with the creator and ask Him simple questions and chat about things and have simple faith to pray.
God really does delight in giving us grace if we would bow down to Him and submit to Him and our leadership in humility. All leadership no matter how bad it is to us comes from God and we need to respect it.
Can I pray for you?
Dear Father
You are aware of this person"s life. You know their need and you know if they need to humble themselves before you. I pray that you inspire them through my simple writings to get a little more honest with themselves and You. I pray that you touch them today and that you answer their prayers in a new way and put the words in their mouth to pray and that you lead them to Yianni for prayer if need be.
In Jesus Name I ask
Amen
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