He wants us to realize and confess our helplessness, our sinfulness, and our complete need for Him in our lives and we can do exactly that, regardless of the depth of the flaw, since we know God will never reject those who come to Him with a humble spirit: That’s what He wants to see abiding in our hearts. It’s to ask God for His forgiveness and to trust Him for His guidance. To be humble is to realize how weak we are, how helpless we are to change the course of our lives in our own power. Scripture says, “ God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6). But there’s an important step each of us must still take to access the mercy and grace that His death affords us.
This was done to reestablish our relationship with God. To humble one's self, to repent to afflict one's self for sin to make contrite.We know that Jesus died for our sins and our human faults. The highest mountains may be humbled into valleys.Ħ. Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart. Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. To make humble or lowly in mind to abase the pride of to reduce arrogance and self-dependence to give a low opinion of one's moral worth to make meek and submissive to the divine will the evangelical sense. The battle of Waterloo humbled the power of Buonaparte.ģ. The power of Rome was humbled, but not subdued.ġ. HUM'BLE, verb transitive To abase to reduce to a low state.
Without a humble imitation of the divine author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation.
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. In an evangelical sense, having a low opinion of one's self, and a deep sense of unworthiness in the sight of God. Lowly modest meek submissive opposed to proud, haughty, arrogant or assuming. Low opposed to lofty or great mean not magnificent as a humble cottage.ģ.
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