Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“All these things my hand has made, and so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look, to the humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at my word.”
NL Daily Devotion for Saturday, July 1, 2023
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Humility gets a bad rap. We often confuse it with “humiliation”. It flies in the face of our culture of rugged individualism and pride of self, and we see it as weakness of character. Even when we have deep respect for those who exhibit it, we secretly fear that if we lived as they do, we would never get what we really wanted out of life.
And yet God calls us to humility, not because God wants us to grovel at God’s feet, but because it is only through the practice of humility that we can truly recognize how God shows up in our lives. It is only when we get out of our own way, and God’s, that we fully experience the abundance of God’s grace and the true joy of living.
In what ways to I practice humility in my life?
