Walk Of Life – Day 18 – February 2022 – Thoughts From The Book Of Proverbs – Love!
Love to be Humble
Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor. Proverbs 18:12
We all start our life with humble beginnings. With time, one becomes ambitious to grow and prosper in terms of fame, power, and money. These worldly achievements slowly fill a man’s heart with pride and boasting. Once your heart is filled with selfish pride, we start depending on our own abilities rather than on GOD’s strength.
David was a simple shepherd boy. He spent most of his time tending his father’s flocks and praising God through Psalms. From a shepherd boy, God made him the king over HIS people Israel. With time, he grew in strength, wealth, stature and became very powerful king. David relied on God’s strength to win all his battles. But when there was peace in the nation, David ordered to count his army so that he could glory in his vast army and it’s defense system. When David heard that there were 8 lakhs fighting men in his kingdom, he felt proud of his success. But God’s spirit made him realize that he had sinned by forgetting that it is God who gave him all the victories over his enemies and brought peace in his land.
David repented and hoped to receive God’s forgiveness. But God punished him by sending a plague for three days in the land which struck 70,000 people dead. In his affliction, David pleaded God to spare the people but punish his household instead for his sins. In his mercy, God asked David to build an altar on the threshing floor of Araunah, the Jebusite. Once David did this rightly in the sight of God, then the plague stopped.
David’s pride made him pay a heavy price, but when he humbled and corrected himself, God forgave him and allowed his son Solomon the honor of building a resting place for the ark of the covenant. Pride leads you to destruction and the only way to save yourself is to turn to God and repent.
Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.” – Jeremiah 9:23–24
“Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.”
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