Humility

September 9, 2024

 We don’t hear much about humility these days. Listen to the presidential candidates and all you hear is arrogance—how a vote for the other side means the end of all we hold dear, but “I can make everything better.” Humility is seen as weakness. Except in the Bible.

 “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” —I Peter 5:6-7 

Remember that these verses precede Peter’s mention of Satan as a lion. Humility is something the devil doesn’t know how to handle; after all, his sin was pride. He thought he could displace God himself:

““How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.” —Isaiah 14:12-15 

You will never outwit or defeat the devil with any kind of boasting or arrogance. Some Christians speak of him as if they were going to mop the floor with him. If you hear that kind of talk, walk away. That’s the devil speaking. He is defeated only through the kind of humility that Jesus had when he endured the cross for us.