Pride, arrogance, greed and selfishness are rampant today. We are conditioned to look out for ourselves and fight for what we think we are entitled to. More emphasis is placed on self-fulfillment than morality and our children are taught that it's more important to feel good than to do good. We don’t live in an environment that is conducive to humility and/or thankfulness.
James tells us to humble ourselves. Paul tells us to give thanks in all circumstances.
I had a particularly hard day today. It was hard to give thanks. It was hard to be humble. I started to think about how do you “be humble”. You actually have to humble yourself in order to be humble. You have to give thanks in order to be thankful. It is what you choose to do, not what you feel. And it is often not what you want to do. If you make humbling yourself and being thankful a part of your daily routine, eventually it will become a part of your personality. It will just happen when you least expect it and you won’t even have to think about it.
Start today. Humble yourself before God and tell him you will do whatever he wants you to do. Give thanks for all the good things in your life. “Count your blessings.”
James 4:10 “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”
1 Thessalonians 5:18 “give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus”
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