EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2025.
SUBJECT: GOD'S GRACE IS FOR THE HUMBLE!
Memory verse: "Humble yourselves in the sight of the LORD, and He will lift you up. (James 4 vs 10.)
READ: First Peter 5 vs 6 - 7:
5:6: Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He exalt you in due time,
5:7: casting all your cares upon Him, for He cares for you.
INTIMATION:
God gives grace (unmerited favor) to the humble, to those who adhere to, trust in, and rely on Him and not on their own ability, schemes, and devises, or even on their own great wisdom, knowledge, and faith.
Therefore, humble yourselves [demote, lower yourselves in your own estimation] under the mighty hand of God, that in due time He may exalt you. To humble yourself under the mighty hand of God that in due time He may exalt you, means to ask the LORD for what you need and then wait on Him to provide it as He sees fit, knowing that His timing is always perfect. It means to be still and know that He is God, and that He knows what is best for you in every situation of life. It means to stop trying to make things happen yourself and allow the LORD to show you what you need to do to co-operate with His plan and purpose for you.
We often worry about our position and status, hoping to get proper recognition for what we do. Remember that God's recognition counts more than human praise. Humbly obey God regardless of present circumstances, and in His good time, He will lift you up. Carrying your worries, stresses, and daily struggles by yourself shows that you have not trusted God fully with your life, and this is pride. It takes humility, however, to recognize that God cares, and also, to admit your need and lay them at the feet of our Messiah.
Sometimes we think that struggles caused by our own sin and foolishness are not God's concern. But when we turn to God in repentance, He will bear the weight of those struggles. Letting God have your anxieties calls for action, not passivity. We display lack of knowledge of God when we think of everything we did wrong and figure that it automatically disqualifies us for any of God's blessings. And it is under this weight of lack of knowledge that we are destroyed (Hosea 4 vs 6).
If God could bless only perfect people, then He could never bless anyone, because we have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. (Romans 3 vs 23.) Consequently, none of us supposedly deserves any good thing from the LORD. But that fact did not keep us from receiving His glorious salvation, then why should it keep us from receiving His manifold blessings? If He didn't spare or withhold [even] His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things? (Romans 8 vs 32).
The apostle Peter counsels us to cast the whole of our care (all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all) on the LORD, for He cares for us affectionately and cares about us watchfully, and His care is perfect and better than what we can do for ourselves.
The person who really understands the grace of God will not worry. Why? Because worry is a work of the flesh. It is trying to figure out what to do to save oneself rather than trusting in God for deliverance. The individual who is living in constant worry is not receiving the fullness of God's grace, because just as perfect love casts out fear (First John 4 vs 18), so God's grace expels all traces of worry and anxiety. Walk in the grace of the LORD and you will not fulfill the work of the flesh.
Prayer: Abba Father, in You I live and move and have my being. Let not the cares of this world; the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life take my focus off You, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.
PRAISE THE LORD!
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