2 Chronicles 7:14
If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves… then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
God’s response is predicated on four steps God’s people must take. Observe that it’s not enough to be called by the Lord’s name. We can’t just rest on our identity as Christians. Knowing who we are without knowing what to do and how to live will not help us.
Today focus on the fact that we must HUMBLE ourselves. Let us meditate on a few Scripture passages that address the subject of humility for our edification.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up (James 4:10). For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith (Rom 12:3).
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-even death on a cross! (Phi 2:3-8).
Note that the spiritual discipline of fasting is one way of humbling ourselves in the presence of God (see Dan 10:12). May the Holy Spirit enable us to walk in genuine humility.
Pastor Josh