Humble Yourself

July 3, 2008

By Dorothy Rugg

It is important that we humble ourselves and seek after God. As the Scripture tells us in Psalms, we should ask that God would search us and know us and see if there is any wicked way in us (139:23,24).

I admit it’s not easy to humble ourselves and admit there are things in our lives that do not line up with the Word of God or that there are too many things that come before God in our lives. But when we take that step, God does a wonderful work within us.

So many Scriptures encourage us to seek after God. Here are just a few.

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14, KJV).

“Thus says the Lord, ‘Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest? For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being,’ declares the Lord. ‘But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word’ ” (Isaiah 66:1,2, NASB).

“You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:5-7).

My soul longs to see our churches filled with people seeking after God, people radically changed by the power of God and being filled with the Holy Spirit. They, in turn, would have the power to be a witness for God, to live lives that are holy and pleasing unto God.

May today be a day of humbling ourselves and seeking after God. The resulting blessings will astound us.

— James and Dorothy Rugg pastor Mill City AG in Dalton, Pa.