Humble Yourself

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It is written in 1 Peter 5:6-7; “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”

The above are the directives of God for his people on earth. Apparently, the thoughts of casting the anxieties to God are well tolerable, but humbling oneself towards the fellow being is intolerable. Then, how can you expect the biblical promises to our favor without obeying God’s mandates? Perhaps, that is the time when people search for alternate to bypass the difficult requirements in the bible – possibly today’s various new believer-concepts, in the form of revival churches or prosperity gospel – where everything is simplified and reverted for the presumed faith accomplishment.

As a matter of fact, ever if people are humble, the world would be a better place, for the arrogance and hatred is the number one culprit that destroys a person, supposedly – and it happens to the Christian world even to a larger extent, where the church leaders fight for the power and money. I must say that, not being able to submit towards one another, could be one of the major reasons for the divisions among the Christian Churches – while to create diversified approaches to the God, in terms of worthless traditions.

The Bible reads in Philippians 2:3-8; “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!”

Therefore, it is time to humble ourselves to the same God, who was there in the past, now in the present and will be in the future. Amen