Walk Humby and Praise July 24

Prayer

I thank you, God, for this good day. I thank you for the good I will find in this day. I thank you for the good I will be, in praise of You, this day. I thank you for the good I will do for others this day. Amen.

Study
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Only to do the right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8

Do we know what this - one of the most lovely and most quoted of verses in Scripture – means? I wonder, if we think we do know, that we haven’t already crossed over a line of humility. The psalm says: “To the upright I will show the saving power of God.” Jesus tells those who wish to trick him that Nineveh and the queen of the south shall rise and condemn the evil generation because Nineveh and the queen repented their evil and they sought the one God. They sought in all their beings. They repented and sought because they realized that they did not know. They needed more.

Now, Jesus says, there is something even greater than what they sought and it is what we should seek. We are to seek Jesus, seek His will. We are to seek with all our being and He …will show the salvation of God.

The queen of the South and the Ninevites did not know Jesus. But God does not condemn them for being “wrong”. God showed them the way of salvation because they repented and sought. They did not go their own way. In the end, they are examples of following. Walking humbly with means throwing off MY WAY and accepting God’s way. Spending time with the Scriptures and carrying them through each day helps us sort out what his will is in each of our actions and reactions to our daily lives.

Action

He that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies me… Let each of my actions today be prompted by a desire to praise God, to walk humbly with God. Follow, don’t lead.

DeColores
Beth DeCristofaro