Daily Bible Reading with DragoNate #101

Humbleness

Isaiah 23

I pray blessings on you as you read.

(v. 9) "The Lord Almighty planned it, to bring low the pride of all glory and to humble all who are renowned on the earth."

My Thoughts

When I read Isaiah 23, what stood out to me was the word humble. There are lots of other verses, where Jesus speaks for example, that talk about being humble, but this one I just don't see anything else right now. So that's is, obviously, what this post is about.

Being humble is a lot like being meek, which is another topic I blogged about. Where I believe the difference lies is in our attitude before we are humble or meek. What I mean is that meekness comes from being shy, you don't want to stand out or be big or anything like that. You'd rather be in the background. God doesn't want that, so you become meek.

In this way, humbleness comes from the opposite. You are outgoing, you want to be big and you want to stand out. Before I say anything else, I have to say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with being outgoing, in fact, it can be a good thing! The exact same goes for being shy. What I am talking about here are the extremes of the two. If you are so shy that you won't talk to anyone, you won't help bring others to right relationship with God. If you are too outgoing, you are usually pretty egotistical and you'll be turning people away from God. God doesn't want us to do either.

Meekness is for when we are very low and brings us up higher. Humbleness is for when we are very high and brings us down lower. The end result is the same for both, it just depends on where we are beforehand. We all need to be brought down in some areas, and in other areas, we all need to be brought up.

This post was supposed to be about humbleness, but it ended up being more of a comparison between humbleness and meekness. That's okay though. Maybe this cleared up some questions you had, maybe it gave a new perspective. If you do have other questions, I do have an email you can contact me at in the about page.

Prayer Time

Now you talk to God about what you read, and you can even read this chapter of the Bible for yourself before you do.

Let me know your thoughts on this reading as well.

Thank you for taking the time to read, I pray that what you have read blesses and inspires you! Godbless!

Daily Bible Reading with DragoNate #65

Meekness

Zephaniah 3

I pray blessings on you as you read.

(v. 11-12) "On that day you will not be put to shame for all the wrongs you have done to me, because I will remove from this city those who rejoice in their pride. Never again will you haughty on my hill. But I will leave within you the meek and humble, who trust in the name of the Lord."

My Thoughts

You have probably heard of being humble before, but have you heard of being meek? Meekness isn't a bad thing when it comes to God, in fact we should be meek before God. It is similar in meaning to humble but a bit different. Meek is a word that is often used in a negative kind of way, like to describe those kids in school who just let others push them around.

Meekness is like humbleness, not elevating ourselves and not boasting. Meekness is like submissiveness, to submit to God and what He wants rather than what we want. Meekness is to be obedient to God. It is not to let God push us around and walk all over us the way people do, but it is to do what God wants us to do because we want and choose to do so.

When we are meek before God, we rely on Him and not ourselves or anything that we have. We abandon our own desires for the sake of Christ and His work. That doesn't mean that we can't ask God for anything that we want or that we can't have things that we want. That just means that we focus on God and His desires rather than on our own.

God always has our best interests at heart, so why would it be a bad thing to do this? If we focus on our own desires and our own selves, we won't get very far. We need to align our hearts and our minds with that of Christ so that we put Him into everything that we do. When we rely on God, amazing things can happen because we are allowing God to act and having faith in Him.

When it comes to God, be meek and humble. Put your trust fully in Him and be obedient to what He wants. Your life will be filled with more joy the more you lean on God.

Prayer Time

Now you talk to God about what you read, and you can even read this chapter of the Bible for yourself before you do.

Let me know your thoughts on this reading as well.

Thank you for taking the time to read, I pray that what you have read blesses and inspires you! Godbless!