Submit to God

Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you (1 Peter 5:5-7).

Humility preserves peace and order in all Christian churches and societies; pride disturbs them. Where God gives grace to be humble, He will give wisdom, faith, and holiness. To be humble, and subject to our reconciled God, will bring greater comfort to the soul than the gratification of pride and ambition. But it is to be in the proper time; not in our own perceived time, but God’s own wisely appointed time. If God waits, will we, as believers also wait? Imagine the difficulties the firm belief in His wisdom, power, and goodness will conquer! So, be humble under His hand. Cast “all you care;” personal cares, family cares, cares for the present, and cares for the future, for yourselves, for others, for the church; cast them on God. These pressures of life can be burdensome, especially when they arise from unbelief and fear. The remedy is, to cast our care upon God, and leave every circumstance to His wise and gracious working. Firm belief that God’s Divine will and counsels are right, calms the spirit of a man. Often, even the godly too often forget this, and worry themselves for no purpose. Refer all to God’s wise decisions and actions. The golden mines of all spiritual comfort and good are wholly and fully His, as well as the Spirit, Himself. Then, if we rely on Him alone, won’t He furnish what is fit and best for us, if we submit and humbly rely on Him totally, and lay the care of providing for us, upon His unfailing wisdom and love?

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture taken from the New King James Version®, NKJV © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
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