Humble - not proud or arrogant; modest:
I love so much of James 4 that I couldnt pick just bits and peices of it...so you guys get it all!! Being humble is a great trait to have. I was convicted of this right away. I never thought of myself as better than others, but now I see it in a whole new light. Being accountable for your actions with out justifying the reasons why you did what you did. Dont defend yourself; just be more like Jesus and appologize for the wrong you have done; be humble. [If you strive to be more Christ-like, and think before you speak or act every day, then you wont have to defend yourself.] Dont exalt yourself or be arrogant about being right. Dont think that you are better than someone else because you dont agree with what they do. "Who are you to judge thy neighbor?"
It is hard to stay humble 24/7. When I slip up and let my emotions ge the best of me. It is anger or when my feelings get hurt that makes I loose the humble trait. After I have said what I didnt want to say, I cant take it back and I hurt other people. It is a loose loose situation. So...this was suppose to be a small blog about being humble....but I couldnt help it. I felt inspired. I hope you all have a great day!
James 4
Submit Yourselves to God
1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
"God opposes the proud
but shows favor to the humble.”
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
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