Think a little lower

Humbling myself before God is when I give up my ways and submit to Him; when I truly bow down to Him on the inside. It often then looks like a lack of extraneous activity on the outside (that being replaced by peace), by true and lasting achievements by and of God, by fruitfulness from abiding in Him, by sensitivity to others, and by unexpected and/or unusual wisdom for different situations (James 3:13).

To humbel myself is to realize that I am not in control and That I do not have all the answers. This is why that I need to trust in The Lord. I need to live by his word and not the Worlds. I need to have Faith and Trust that his word is what is going to keep me happy and content in life and anything that may come my way I need to look and read and handel it by what Gods word says to do.

I need to ask that everyone keep my son [name removed] in your prayers cause he is going throug a very difficult time right now that will take some time to work thru. The good news is he asked Christ back into his life and heart. He realize that he had to handel it over to the Lord and that he has no control himself.

I also need to ask for prayers for [name removed] son. He is 2 yrs old and has 3 benign tumers in his brain which causes siezgures and benign tumors around his heart. He is going in for surgery to remove the benighn tumors around his heart. Please keep him also in your prayers cause he has a long road to tow also and his family. Thank you all for all your support

There's so much practical, good-Biblical teaching & instruction found in just these few verses here! James vs 6 tells us, "But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." {this in itself is a good enough reason for us to want to be humble}.

We need to "put on the mind of Christ" ... or have His attitude/character formed in us. He certainly was humble! If we always think of others better than ourselves, it's easier for us to be humble people and imitators of our Lord.

Being humble to me is realizing that God is in control of everything and living my life according to that reality. He is Lord of all! "Humility is not denying the power you have but admitting that the power comes through you and not from you."

Wow- good question for today! I think humbling myself before God means that I need to let God mold me instead of allowing the world to mold me. When I fall and allow the world to entice me, I need to repent and get back on His righteous path. What it would look like is to act/show love towards other, spread the good news with others vs. being the closet Christian, praying, fasting, worship, etc. All acts that show how much I appreciate/need His grace over my life.

This is a great motivating passage for me. Many times I feel like I live two lives. My church life and my work life. Don't get me wrong, I don't denounce God or Christ in my "work life," but I could do a lot better at being a Godly example to my co-workers! After all, that is what God wants from me!

Wanda, we'll be praying for your son as well as the little two-year-old boy you mentioned. Tami W.

Humbling myself before God means also frequently putting others first in my considerations. We are called by Jesus to be servants, and this requires a spirit of humility. Resisting how satan wants me to respond in my relationships and submitting them to God is a step toward humility that has to be taken frequently.

It's a amazing how showing others love and respect go hand in hand with humility. It's not always easy for me, but though daily devotions and seeking God first has started changing me whole outlook. Wanda, your son, [name removed] and [mentioned] family are in my prays for God to give them the strengh and courage they need. There is a new movie in our area called 'Letters to God' which is on this very subject of strengh and courage of young boys acceptance of his own battle with tumors.

Humbling myself before God: allowing Him to lead my life and forsaking my selfish desires. Acknowledging Him as my devine and sovereign Lord and seeking to please Him with my life. That's what I think it means. Practically, praying over the course of the day in communication with Him, reading His word and keeping Him in all my decisions and reactions. . . that is much easier said than done, and is a work in progress! The world does get in the way and I fail frequently. But I get back up again and keep trying. It is a journey.

Wanda, Mu prauers are with your son and the 2 year old that has tumors. May Christ gobve them strenght and courage.

What does it mean to humble myself before God--hmm, I, too, agree that this is a good question. It made me think about myself and how the Lord has blessed me to be apart of His family. This week if I would give it a title, I would call it "Humble Thyself!" The weekly bible study at my church talked about this and EVERY devotional I read this week dealt with it and now it is here AGAIN! I suppose the Lord wants me to work on humility (smile). Back to what it means to me, well it means to admit to GOD that I was and still am in some instances a prideful person. It means, letting go of the "ITS ALL ABOUT ME MENTALITY." It means admitting to GOD my faults and my insecurities and my hangups that cause me not to be humble. It means a whole lot. Most of all, I realized without humility I can not see God like I want to. In my experience this week, I found that when you humble yourself, that is when the windows of heaven open, and a blessing is poured out upon you. When I bacame humble the Lord showed me exactly what I needed to clean up within so that I can be closer to him. Believe me it was not pretty, I remembered that the God is my Father and he chastens whom he loves so yes I was and still am embarrassed ashamed and all of that but it gave me what I needed to clean myself up so that room can be made for the fruits of the spirit talked about in Galatians 5. So now that I have admitted to God that I am not the whole beach I am jsut a grain of sand on it I can hear from him in abundance!

Humility means admitting to GOD the things you would not dare admit to another human being for fear of them judging you. Once you admit it to God and ask him to help you fix it then you can and will exhibit it in the way you show up in the physical world.

Jesus was humble, they accused him, beat him, spit on him, and EVEN KILLED HIM, he said NOT A MUMBLING WORD. I believe he knew and was secure with his relationship with God that he did not need to retaliate--THAT TAKES HUMILITY! Thank God for Jesus our example on how to navigate through the world!

Humbleness is recognizing that God is first and every time I see myself getting in front of God (pride)I need to repent immediately. Like Kevin said, it is a journey.
Wanda, you and your family and friends have my prayers as well. May God's will be done.

Humbling before God means to me ... that I don't always have all the answers and that God is always with me. Anything that I have a problem with that I can always talk to God about it. I pray about it and know that he will handle it. Life is journey, not a destination. So look to God...there is nothing and I mean nothing he can't handle!

Wanda, your son, [name removed] and [mentioned] family are in my prayers.

Submission to God is for me the way to humble yourself. It is to cause all decisions to be made using Christ as your yardstick or the word of God as the ruler. It means involving God in all aspects of our life. It means worshiping God always not only because he is a jealous God but he is a mighty God worthy to be praised the only true God who made all things and who sent his son to die for our redemption. God is a great God.

Wanda, you and your family are in our prayers. May the Lord be there be for the doctors are. As my wife got the answer God was in charge. We had to humble ourselfs and say your will Lord not ours. One day a SPOT on her lung two days later it was gone. We praise our Heavenly Father. We most stay out of His way and trust.

Being humble means (to me) that without God I am nothing. Without love I am nothing. I must continue to read and seek His Word daily so that I will continue to grow in His love and His mercy. Keeping in touch with God daily shows me so many things that I did not see the first or the second time I read a particular Scripture. I do not know everything and when I do think about it I only know very little. Being humble means I must be more like Jesus who was the most humble person who lived on earth. We know He never had to be humble because He is King of kings and Lord of lords. He owns everything in heaven and on earth. So for Him to be humble, is just to show what lengths He would go to have us believe in Him. He did not choose the rich, He always chose the poor, the sinners, the murderers, the liars to show us we have hope if we believe in Him. We are not better than anyone else and we must respect each person for we are all made in His image. When we disrespect someone we disrespect God.

Wanda, I am praying for your son that God will strengthen him and that he will will see the light and see much God loves him. I am also praying for [name removed] the 2 year old that God will guide the hands of the surgeons during the surgery and that he will be completely healed to lead a normal life. I also pray for all who have contributed today on Powered by 4 that God will strengthen us and to keep us committed to this blog as the comments are inspirational and help us to see different views and that we can pray for each other. A blessed weekend to all.

I haven't read all of the comments, so I hope I don't totally repeat what someone else has already written!
I think humility is well defined in 1.Peter 5:5-7. It does NOT mean making yourself everybody's doormat! It means that I fully and honestly accept God (the Bible's) verdict about me as well as what it says about God. And that is more effectively ennobling (because God is so good) than any self-realizing programs people want us to try. As I thus bow before Him, I am then empowered to stand tall and uncompromising against the devil (v.9)! And no doormatting!

Humbling myself before God tells me that before I act, remember that God sees me in all that I do. To me that looks like remembering when I am wronged or treated in a negative manner, that I don't react like someone in the world would act. I should not allow situations to cause me to be anything other than a Jesus Christ following Christian who is saved by grace through faith.

Being humble to me is recognizing how much sin there is in my life and how much I need gods mercy and grace. Pleading for forgiveness when I think about where we would end up without it. Without Gods love mercy and grace even the best of us deserve the worst.

I think seeking God is one of the key ways of becoming a humble person.

First Timer. Interesting question. Great comments. There are so many dimensions to Humility, does it look the same for someone with little resources or intellect vs. someone with great resources or high intelligence? But the question is, How does it look humbling ourselves before the Lord? Which brings up the question is He your Lord? If not than certainly that person cannot know or even desire to humble himself. But those who call him Lord, have first come to him in humility, expressing their helplessness in their sinful nature, repent, and realize their great need to be rescued and call out to the Saviour. How can you be more Humble? As believer still trapped in this sinful body the struggle is self righteousness. And pride does trip me up when I think I am doing, doing, doing, everything right and something bad happens to me, like being cheated by a christian brother or being told your son has cancer and is given a one percent chance of survival. My first thoughts are this isn't fair, I am going to straighten this brother out. Or how could my God allow this to happen to my son? I am learning that as my Lord, it is his responsiblity to complete the work in me. And I am learning that he has been given all authority to transform me. And in humility I am saying, because I still struggle with this, I can trust him in the good and bad, success or my failure, that he the Lord brings into my life. He is a Good Shepard, a great refiner and he hasn't lost any sheep or Gold. Wanda you can trust Him. Your family is in my prayers.