Go for Grace 4

In the race of life making you enjoy more grace, be humble. Jesus says, “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls” (Matthew 11:29). And Philippians 2:5 counsels, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”

Keep pride away from you. It is the nature of the devil which kicked him out of heaven where he was in his office as Lucifer full of glory. Now in his defeated position on earth, envious of man, he goes about possessing them with such spirit which many foolishly misjudge as a form of carriage, so as to disconnect them from God and His grace, so he could own them. Whoever that is wise will not succumb to the spirit of pride because he has all to lose: God and men who are His hands.

Scripture speaks of His people, Jacob, the lot of His inheritance in Deuteronomy 32:7-15; God found him in a desert land, in a waste howling wilderness, led him about, instructed him, kept him as the apple of His eye, shielded him as an eagle covereth her young, beareth them on her wings, fed him and made him suck honey out of the rock and oil out of a flinty rock. But when pride entered him, scripture says, “But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick…then he forsook God which made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.” And God said, “…I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be…” (Deuteronomy 32:20). What a woeful end because of pride! Do not open your life to disgrace because of pride which cuts off grace from men.