A Prayer for the Present of Humility – Your Day-to-day Prayer

A Prayer for the Gift of Humility
By Emily Rose Massey

“But he presents far more grace. Hence, it suggests, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6, ESV). 

After my freshman yr of college or university, I transferred colleges, ditched my plans to turn into an English teacher, and switched my main to theatre functionality instead. My appreciate for theater and acting turned my implies of escaping the truth that I loathed who I experienced become, so as an actress, I could just be an individual else. The spotlight built me sense so good! My delight brought about me to come to be the heart of my have universe. I would endeavor to demonstrate that I was deserving of enjoy by my abilities and excellent appears to be, attempting to fill the emptiness inside even additional, but it only designed it worse. I arrived at a place exactly where I stopped attempting to “do better” and “be much better.” Alternatively, I chose to live in my pit of sin and delight and designed designs to run away to Los Angeles to become an actress to go after my “calling and purpose” and establish to the globe my value, talent, elegance, and allure.

But even in my pit of sin, God was even now pursuing me and contacting my title. With arms large open up, He was waiting and completely ready for me to arrive to my senses, to the stop of myself and arrive home. In God’s fantastic providence and timing, the Holy Spirit raised this dead a person to daily life. I was so exceptionally prideful and self-centered, but a person day, my eyes ended up opened to my sinful rebelliousness, and I was granted the gift of humility to truly repent of my sins, just take up my cross, and abide by Christ. Humility introduced His grace into my daily life- some thing I could by no means function to make. 

Humility is truly a present from the Father. As human beings, just like the fruit of the Spirit, it is challenging to wander constantly in this godly trait. We want God’s help, His grace. To be granted His heavenly grace gifts, we will have to turn out to be humble just before the throne of God.

James tells us in chapter 4:

“But [God] gives additional grace. Thus, it says, “God opposes the very pleased but offers grace to the humble” (James 4:6, ESV).

When we feel we can regulate our lifetime far better than God, we will inevitably fail. Delight arrives just before a tumble, just after all (Proverbs 16:18). We ought to acknowledge our prideful, self-reliant strategies if we want to practical experience the sustaining and empowering grace of God. For me, in that providential second pretty much 15 a long time ago that transformed my existence, I commenced to knowledge this deep conviction that I was residing a reckless and sinful lifestyle that offended God, who is altogether holy, and that I had been running away from the Father. It definitely was my prodigal son moment— I came to my senses and the close of myself (Luke 15) and no for a longer period desired to are living in the filth of my sinful life. Quickly, I knew I necessary to repent of my sin and begin functioning toward the Father. Correct there, with fingers lifted in worship, and tears streaming down my experience, I repented of my pleasure and revolt I instructed God that I didn’t want to are living this lifestyle on my possess any more and that I required to surrender to His plan, halt residing for myself, and live for Him instead. As I loosened my grip on the ideas for my lifetime (one finger at a time, of training course), I began to learn my reason and id in Christ and His great appreciate for me. I laid down my prideful wants to become an actress in LA, picked up my cross, and dedicated to actually pursuing Jesus, no subject the price tag, for the to start with time in my everyday living. I am so exceptionally grateful for that instant of humbling and destruction of my pleasure. Now, I am even now a receiver of that grace- I am presented the possibility to appear humbly and boldly to the throne of grace each single minute of every single single working day to get His energy and mercy. What a present!

Let us pray:

Father God, 
I repent for my self-reliance. I notice that I cannot walk via lifestyle without having Your enable. I inquire for Your beautiful present of humility to penetrate my coronary heart. I lay down my pride and selfishness, and by Your grace, clothe myself in humility that arrives from You. Jesus did not contemplate equality with You a detail to be grasped and emptied Himself of all privileges, He humbled Himself even to the issue of dying on the cross for my sins. I want to mirror selflessness to the world, but for me to do that, I know that I have to have to wander in humility and put my have confidence in in You alone. Thank You for the present of Your grace to be humble and desire other individuals previously mentioned myself.
May perhaps You be glorified in all that I say and do. In Jesus’ name, amen.

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