1 Peter 5:6-7 (NIV)
I don't know about you, but for me it can be awfully hard to wait for anything. Waiting for God should be easier because I should realize that he is Sovereign and has everything under his control. My problem is I can't see it. Sometimes it doesn't look like he is in control to me. But, the truth is that God is in control. What does humility have to do with trusting God? Let's go back to Moses. He got God upset at him twice. Once when God was telling him to go back to Egypt and once when he struck the rock twice and said, "Must we". Think about that. When Moses said "must we bring you water out of this rock?" (Numbers 20:10) he was implying that he and God were bringing the water. No. God was. Moses was just supposed to hit the rock. Before that Moses wrote "Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth" (Numbers 12:3). He could write that because humility is knowing who you are before God. As long as Moses knew his place before God he was fine. But, the moment he thought it was him and God, not God through him, he was not allowed to bring the Israelites into the promised land.
The point is that faith is knowing, whether you feel it or see it or not, God is in control and trust him to lift you up in due time.
Father, lift us up! Praise be to you in us today!
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