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Humble Yourself Before His Word

God demands humility of us and he will go to great lengths to teach us humility. Why? Because our sin nature, or the remnants of it, seek to fuel our pride. The sinful self will constantly tell us that we do not need God, that we are good enough - better in fact, than those around us, and smart - possessing the best knowledge. Just like Adam and Eve, we have eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and we think that we are "like God."

Nowhere is this more evident than in our reading of the Bible. We have our minds fixed before we even open it's pages. Then, when and if we do decide to read the it - we comb through it looking for evidence that supports our own opinions. Because we think that God is surely like us. Surely he thinks like we think and surely he would act as we act. And this is pride, thinking that God is like us.

In Psalm 50 we read:

"For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you...These things you have done, and I kept silence; You thought that I was just like you; I will reprove you..." (NASB)

We must come to God's Word, the Bible, in a humble and lowly way - ready to receive his instruction. God is not like us, but we must become like him and that means letting His word teach us who God is and what we are to think about him and the world in which we live. We must humble ourselves if we are to ever draw near to God.

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