A Prayer for the Present of Humility – Your Every day Prayer

A Prayer for the Present of Humility
By Emily Rose Massey

“However he provides extra grace. Subsequently, it says, “God opposes the proud however provides grace to the common-or-garden” (James 4:6, ESV). 

After my freshman 12 months of school, I transferred colleges, ditched my plans to change into an English trainer, and switched my main to theatre efficiency as a substitute. My love for theater and performing turned my technique of escaping the fact that I loathed who I had change into, in order an actress, I may simply be another person. The highlight made me really feel so good! My delight induced me to change into the middle of my very own universe. I might try and show that I used to be worthy of affection by my skills and beauty, attempting to fill the vacancy inside much more, nevertheless it solely made it worse. I reached some extent the place I ended attempting to “do higher” and “be higher.” As a substitute, I selected to dwell in my pit of sin and delight and made plans to run away to Los Angeles to change into an actress to pursue my “calling and function” and show to the world my price, expertise, magnificence, and appeal.

However even in my pit of sin, God was nonetheless pursuing me and calling my title. With arms large open, He was ready and prepared for me to come back to my senses, to the tip of myself and are available dwelling. In God’s good windfall and timing, the Holy Spirit raised this lifeless one to life. I used to be so extraordinarily prideful and self-centered, however at some point, my eyes had been opened to my sinful rebelliousness, and I used to be granted the reward of humility to actually repent of my sins, take up my cross, and observe Christ. Humility introduced His grace into my life- one thing I may by no means work to earn. 

Humility is really a present from the Father. As people, similar to the fruit of the Spirit, it’s troublesome to stroll regularly on this godly trait. We’d like God’s assist, His grace. To be granted His heavenly grace presents, we should change into humble earlier than the throne of God.

James tells us in chapter 4:

“However [God] provides extra grace. Subsequently, it says, “God opposes the proud however provides grace to the common-or-garden” (James 4:6, ESV).

After we assume we are able to management our life higher than God, we’ll ultimately fail. Delight comes earlier than a fall, in any case (Proverbs 16:18). We should acknowledge our prideful, self-reliant methods if we wish to expertise the sustaining and empowering grace of God. For me, in that providential second nearly 15 years in the past that modified my life, I started to expertise this deep conviction that I used to be dwelling a reckless and sinful life that offended God, who’s altogether holy, and that I had been operating away from the Father. It actually was my prodigal son second— I got here to my senses and the tip of myself (Luke 15) and not needed to dwell within the filth of my sinful life. Instantly, I knew I wanted to repent of my sin and begin operating towards the Father. Proper there, with palms lifted in worship, and tears streaming down my face, I repented of my delight and revolt; I advised God that I didn’t wish to dwell this life alone anymore and that I needed to give up to His plan, cease dwelling for myself, and dwell for Him as a substitute. As I loosened my grip on the plans for my life (one finger at a time, after all), I started to find my function and id in Christ and His nice love for me. I laid down my prideful needs to change into an actress in LA, picked up my cross, and dedicated to actually following Jesus, irrespective of the associated fee, for the primary time in my life. I’m so extremely grateful for that second of humbling and destruction of my delight. Now, I’m nonetheless a recipient of that grace- I’m given the chance to come back humbly and boldly to the throne of grace each single second of each single day to obtain His energy and mercy. What a present!

Let’s pray:

Father God, 
I repent for my self-reliance. I notice that I can’t stroll by way of life with out Your assist. I ask for Your lovely reward of humility to penetrate my coronary heart. I lay down my delight and selfishness, and by Your grace, dress myself in humility that comes from You. Jesus didn’t think about equality with You a factor to be grasped and emptied Himself of all privileges, He humbled Himself even to the purpose of dying on the cross for my sins. I wish to replicate selflessness to the world, however for me to try this, I do know that I must stroll in humility and put my belief in You alone. Thank You for the reward of Your grace to be humble and like others above myself.
Might You be glorified in all that I say and do. In Jesus’ title, amen.

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