And I am not

 June 30, 2014

Good Morning My Beloved Ones,

     I pray you are submitting yourselves unto God and resisting the devil and making him flee.

     Today I want to talk to you about “And I am not”.  I was sitting at the bus stop the other morning, alone, feeling the

cool breeze that would precede a hot, muggy day, looking up and seeing the majesty of the clouds and a multi-colored sky and had the thought: “You are Creator, and I am not.”  That thought led to “You are all-knowing, all-powerful, you are truth, you are love, you are wholly good…and I am not.”

     James 4:10 tells us to humble ourselves in the sight of the Lord and He will lift us up.  In the world we live in, it is so hard to keep our focus on anything but ourselves, our needs, our desires, our plans, our overwhelming circumstances.  But to be lifted above these things, we must humble ourselves in the sight of the Lord.    

People have some strange ideas about humility.  Some think

it means being a doormat letting others walk all over them.  Some think it means belittling themselves and making themselves of no value.  Others think it means taking abuse without complaint.  None of these things are humility and none of them please God.

    Humility is simply seeing God for who He is and recognizing ourselves as we are in relation to Him.  I am many things:  I am saved, I am forgiven, I am much loved, I am blessed, I am highly favored.  With all that I am, I must recognize what I am not.  True humility, my friends, comes when you can say and mean, “You are Lord, You are Master, You are God…and I am not.”

Allowing Him to lift me up, your sister in Christ, Raelynn