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Just For Today Walk Humbly

Wednesday June 2, 2021
 

 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 soon come to a place of challenge where we want to do what we want to do rather than what we know God wants 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 want to stay with what we are doing rather than meet the other person’s need.  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, as mature adults, make good choices and act responsibly.  We have allowed our wants to be our guide for too long, and that has been our downfall.  God calls us to live as Jesus did, showing compassion and mercy to others, even when it is inconvenient.


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 is important to do inconvenient things in order to grow into the person we were created to be, but at that place, the principle mentioned above will give 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 instruction needed to free us from our character defects.  God wants us to depend on Him and each object lesson will come at just the right time.  He will show us the best way and will strengthen us to be thoroughly equipped for every good work.  On our part, it requires humility and surrender to His will.

 

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, Teach me to do what is right and help me to be willing to do things Your way and in Your time.  Please give me the grace and strength to serve others with kindness even when it is inconvenient to my own schedule.  Amen

 

 

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