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Just For Today Walk Humbly

Friday September 20, 2019

Just for today I will seek to serve others with kindness, doing what is right, and walking humbly with God.

The Lord has shown you what is good.  He has told you what he requires of you.  You must act with justice.  You must love to show mercy and you must be humble as you live in the sight of your God. (Micah 6:8 NIRV)
As we choose life with God in recovery we will often come to a place of challenge where we want to do what we want to do rather than what God is telling us to do.  Perhaps we are having fun and it would be inconvenient to stop and listen to a person who needs to share or needs help with something.  We’d rather let someone else do it this time.  We hear the quiet voice in our head saying, “Do the right thing.”  Will we ignore it or respond?

Self-centered ways are childish ways.  God invites us to grow up and make mature choices as adults to act responsibly.  For too long we have let our feelings be our guide and that’s been our downfall.  God calls us to live as Jesus did, showing compassion and mercy where we can, even when its inconvenient and we don’t feel like doing it.

He makes the whole body grow and build itself up in love. Under the control of Christ, each part of the body does its work.  (Ephesians 4:16a NIRV)

We may not know why it’s important to do inconvenient things in order to find freedom from character defects and grow into the person we were created to be.  We want to learn what we want to focus on when we think we are ready.  That’s where the principle mentioned above gives us guidance: “be humble as you live in the sight of your God.” We are the students.  God is the teacher.  Only God knows the proper sequence of lessons.  God wants us to depend on Him and lessons will come in God’s right time.  God will show us the way forward and strengthen us to be thoroughly equipped for every good work, but it requires humility and surrender on our part.

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, give me the grace and strength to serve others with kindness.  Teach me to do what is right when it is right to do it.  Help me to be willing to do things Your way not mine.  Amen 


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