Someone once joked about writing a book
entitled, "Humility and How I Obtained It." Needless to say, if a book did receive a
title like that, it would not be able to teach and direct us to a life of
humility. The subject of humility, or
being humble, is really a serious topic which should be approached with the
same respect toward the Word of God as prayer or forgiveness, or even love.
In our weekend studies, we are
suggesting a closer look at the Bible theme of humility, with the aim of
strengthening our lives and bringing us closer to God, and possessing more of
the likeness of Jesus.
Here are the suggested verses: (the key verse of your study should be the
one from 1 Peter 5:5)
Deuteronomy 8:2-3 And you shall remember the whole way that
the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he
might humble you, testing you to know what was in your
heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled
you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not
know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does
not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the
mouth of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people who are called by my
name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their
wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal
their land.
Psalms 25:9 He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble
his way.
Psalms 55:19 God will give ear and humble them, he who
is enthroned from of old, Selah because they do
not change and do not fear God.
1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the
elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another,
for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Philippians 2:5-8 Have
this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he
was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be
grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of
a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in
human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death,
even death on a cross.
Psalms 149: 4 For
the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with
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