A Prayer for Humility – Your Day by day Prayer

A Prayer for Humility 
By Chelsey DeMatteis

“For I the Lord don’t change; due to this fact you, O youngsters of Jacob, will not be consumed. From the times of your fathers you’ve got turned except for my statutes and haven’t saved them. Return to me, and I’ll return to you, says the Lord of hosts. However you say, ‘How we could return?’ Malachi 3:6-7

For the final two years, I’ve questioned why my stroll with the Lord felt dry. I’d discover myself virtually every day asking, “how did I get right here”? But, for some motive, I by no means took it farther than that. I saved chugging alongside, doing life and feeling dry, virtually empty, if you’ll.

By God’s grace, one night time, I climbed into the bathtub on the finish of a protracted day. I turned on my worship music and instantly felt tense, questioning if the particular person I used to be listening to selected to stick to sound doctrine. Was this mash-up of favourite worship songs okay? It’s not that the questions had been incorrect, however they confirmed the posture of my coronary heart at that second. Tense and crammed with angst as an alternative of peace and worship. 

Moments later, I had probably the most stunning reminder of climbing into my dad’s truck just a few years in the past to seek out him singing considered one of these songs. God etched that morning into my coronary heart. What a present it was to me to witness my dad singing reward to our Savior. Pure-hearted and in a posture of humility. 

God used that reminiscence to convict my coronary heart that night because the worship track performed. I’d misplaced my humble coronary heart. My as soon as humble coronary heart had been handed over to delight and conceitedness. I discovered myself extra involved with what man thought of issues quite than taking them to the Lord. 

All of it grew to become abundantly clear, and the Holy Spirit started an important revival in my coronary heart. I used to be dropped at the guide of Malachi in chapter 3 and was proven the time when God gave His individuals the chance to show and repent of their sins. He advised the individuals, “return to me and I’ll return to you…” (vs 7). 

I’ll endlessly bear in mind this second with the Lord, simply as I’ll all the time bear in mind climbing into the truck with my dad. Humility washed over me as soon as once more. God’s grace and mercy poured out over my coronary heart. I instantly felt softened. And the considered harshness felt repulsive.

It’s true, and I pray you realize this, too; the love of Christ will all the time soften us. It’ll trigger us to have humble hearts. It’ll make us new, complete, and in deep pursuit of the chance to share God’s love. 

Let’s pray:

Lord, thanks for the reward of the Holy Spirit and conviction. I reward you for the way in which your Phrase softens our hearts. Could I all the time search to look to you for all my solutions and that you’re the one one I want to please. In Jesus’ identify, amen.

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