Day 54: Humility

July 4 • Bible reading from James 4:1-10 Humility

Character: "I choose to esteem others above myself."

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Text:

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle
within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what
you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend
what you get on your pleasures. You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with
the world is hatred towards God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an
enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live
in us envies intensely?

But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
"God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God
and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, & purify your hearts, you
double-minded.
Grieve, mourn & wail. Change your laughter to mourning & your joy to gloom.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, & he will lift you up.

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Take a minute:

What difference does humility make to our relationships with others?