“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.”
It’s fairly obvious that God lifts those who are humble because they know what they should focus on instead of themselves. But, what I’m curious about is why we are so hard to make ourselves humble. It’s a sort of a internal thing and if we TRULY want to be humble, we don’t need to consume our money or possession over. Comparing with winning the prize of Olympic or WBC(World Baseball Classic), it’s surprisingly easy because it’s just internal thing.
However, God knows what we are. We are never able to be humble with our effort because it’s the nature of human-being. We are so fragile and weak to Satan’s attack that humility and meakness, which make God pleased, have easily disappeared.
Merciful Father, let me be humble in the presence of You so that I may lift your