THE TRULY LOVING ARE TRULY HUMBLE, AND THE TRULY HUMBLE ARE TRULY LOVING You’ve got to admit, a big part of love is humility. It takes humility to be affectionate and to receive affection. If you want to fall in love and accept real love, you have to be humble enough to forsake your pride and receive it. This is true even of our relationship with the Lord. When we first hear that God loves us so much that He sent His only Son, Jesus, to die in our place, we have to humble ourselves to receive God’s love. Receiving salvation is a humbling experience. Those who humble themselves receive not only forgiveness, but also an infilling of love they could never have imagined. But those who are too proud miss out on both, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6). Humility and love are inseparable. You cannot have real love and not be humble, and you cannot have genuine humility without a lot of love. Pride’s fear of failure or refusal also prevents us from reaching out to and loving others as much as we should. Not so with humility. Humility has love and faith without fear (1 John 4:18). Love doesn’t care what other people think; it just loves in spite of what they think. So be humble—and love! — James 4:6 ESV - But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, butgives grace to the humble.” 1 John 4:18 ESV - There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. — Jesus, please help us to have more love and humility and to be genuinely concerned about those around us. Amen!
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:20:19 +0000
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