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

A Prayer for the Reward of Humility
By Emily Rose Massey

“But he provides much more grace. Consequently, it claims, “God opposes the happy but provides grace to the humble” (James 4:6, ESV). 

After my freshman year of university, I transferred schools, ditched my plans to come to be an English teacher, and switched my important to theatre overall performance alternatively. My love for theater and acting grew to become my usually means of escaping the truth that I loathed who I had grow to be, so as an actress, I could just be a person else. The spotlight built me sense so very good! My pleasure triggered me to turn out to be the middle of my personal universe. I would try to verify that I was worthy of enjoy by my skills and fantastic looks, hoping to fill the emptiness within even additional, but it only designed it worse. I attained a position exactly where I stopped striving to “do better” and “be much better.” As an alternative, I chose to live in my pit of sin and pride and designed plans to run away to Los Angeles to grow to be an actress to pursue my “calling and purpose” and confirm to the globe my worthy of, talent, elegance, and attraction.

But even in my pit of sin, God was however pursuing me and contacting my title. With arms huge open up, He was waiting around and prepared for me to occur to my senses, to the close of myself and appear residence. In God’s fantastic providence and timing, the Holy Spirit lifted this useless just one to lifestyle. I was so extremely prideful and self-centered, but one particular day, my eyes have been opened to my sinful rebelliousness, and I was granted the reward of humility to truly repent of my sins, take up my cross, and abide by Christ. Humility brought His grace into my life- something I could hardly ever operate to gain. 

Humility is truly a gift from the Father. As people, just like the fruit of the Spirit, it is difficult to wander constantly in this godly trait. We have to have God’s aid, His grace. To be granted His heavenly grace gifts, we should come to be humble in advance of the throne of God.

James tells us in chapter 4:

“But [God] gives more grace. Therefore, it suggests, “God opposes the very pleased but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6, ESV).

When we imagine we can control our everyday living improved than God, we will eventually fall short. Pride will come ahead of a fall, immediately after all (Proverbs 16:18). We need to admit our prideful, self-reliant approaches if we want to expertise the sustaining and empowering grace of God. For me, in that providential moment virtually 15 years ago that modified my daily life, I started to knowledge this deep conviction that I was living a reckless and sinful everyday living that offended God, who is entirely holy, and that I had been managing away from the Father. It genuinely was my prodigal son moment— I came to my senses and the conclude of myself (Luke 15) and no longer wanted to stay in the filth of my sinful life. Instantly, I knew I required to repent of my sin and commence working towards the Father. Ideal there, with fingers lifted in worship, and tears streaming down my experience, I repented of my pleasure and riot I instructed God that I didn’t want to live this existence on my very own anymore and that I preferred to surrender to His strategy, cease living for myself, and live for Him rather. As I loosened my grip on the programs for my lifestyle (a person finger at a time, of study course), I started to explore my intent and identity in Christ and His terrific appreciate for me. I laid down my prideful needs to grow to be an actress in LA, picked up my cross, and fully commited to definitely following Jesus, no subject the charge, for the initially time in my lifestyle. I am so unbelievably grateful for that minute of humbling and destruction of my pleasure. Now, I am nonetheless a recipient of that grace- I am supplied the option to occur humbly and boldly to the throne of grace every single one instant of just about every one day to receive His toughness and mercy. What a gift!

Let us pray:

Father God, 
I repent for my self-reliance. I recognize that I can’t stroll by means of everyday living with no Your enable. I talk to for Your attractive gift of humility to penetrate my coronary heart. I lay down my pleasure and selfishness, and by Your grace, dress myself in humility that arrives from You. Jesus did not consider equality with You a matter 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 replicate selflessness to the globe, but for me to do that, I know that I need to have to stroll in humility and place my believe in in You alone. Thank You for the present of Your grace to be humble and want some others previously mentioned myself.
May perhaps You be glorified in all that I say and do. In Jesus’ name, amen.

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