Humble Yourselves; It’s a Choice
Scripture: 1 Peter 5:6Devotional Series: The Fruit of Humility
Teaching: The Fruit Of Humility pt. 1 (WED 2021-04-07) by Pastor Star R Scott
A servant’s heart. If you marry a servant, one of the things you’re going to notice is that service requires time and energy. You may not always be the focal point, with them doting on you at all times. I’d encourage some of you men who marry servants, stop being so selfish and demanding when somebody’s giving their heart to edify the body of Christ. Take on that servant spirit, embrace it. When you’re married to a servant, there’s no greater privilege, no greater thankfulness, and no greater pride than when they are serving somebody else, rather than just serving you. That’s what we need to encourage them to do. It may work differently in your house. We know the role of the domestic, all of these different things. But I want to tell you, when your heart is given, the more service you give into the body of Christ. That servant’s heart will cost you something. Do you really want it? If you want it, it’s available. “Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.” (James 4:8) He’ll give you that grace to effect this in your life. He’ll put that grace in the home to make it acceptable, to make it the vision. What greater testimony can you give your children than, “We’re going to the house of the Lord.” Amen?
There are those who think just the Pastors need to be up at church serving all the time. But for a true servant, when the doors of the church are open, you’re there. Your heart is to be the first one to come and the last one to leave. It’s not about the position you have, it’s about your heart. I was glad when they said unto me, let us go to the house of the Lord! Amen? If something needs to be done at the church, you’re there. You want to get something done, I’m there. Each and every member, that’s able to come, should have a servant’s heart.
What are we talking about? The spirit of humility that makes us want to serve, that makes us want to partake of this great high calling. “Draw night to God, and he will draw nigh to you.” “Humble yourselves.” (1 Peter 5:6) Humble yourselves. It’s a choice! God doesn’t humble you. God gives you grace and you humble yourself. You choose to deny yourself. You choose to take up that cross. You choose to resist the devil. You choose to draw nigh unto God. You choose to come unto Him and take His yoke upon yourself and learn of Him, for He is meek and lowly in heart. “I want to be humble!” Do you? Some of us that are more outgoing, at times, in our personalities, some of us that unfortunately display our carnality and the warfare we have with the pride that’s in us, doesn’t mean that those that are sitting in the back and not making a peep or not showing themselves forth, aren’t just as proud and hard-hearted and self-indulgent as anybody else. It’s in every one of us. The nature of fallen man is to prefer self. “I will be as God. I will be independent. I will be like the Most High.” Don’t you want to be humble? Don’t you really want to be able to love others— because all we’re really talking about when we talk about humility—don’t you want to be humble? All that means is, don’t you want to be a faithful servant of Jesus, to do what His Word has ordained for each and every one of us, to love others more than we love ourselves, to fulfill the mandate of the ministry of the church to care? Each member having the same care one for another. Wherever that wound is, people are there to speak a word in season and food is brought and some will just sit there. If you want to be quiet, we’ll sit here and not say a word for an hour. If you want to talk, we’ll talk. If you want to cry, we’ll cry. The same care one for another.
There are those who think just the Pastors need to be up at church serving all the time. But for a true servant, when the doors of the church are open, you’re there. Your heart is to be the first one to come and the last one to leave. It’s not about the position you have, it’s about your heart. I was glad when they said unto me, let us go to the house of the Lord! Amen? If something needs to be done at the church, you’re there. You want to get something done, I’m there. Each and every member, that’s able to come, should have a servant’s heart.
What are we talking about? The spirit of humility that makes us want to serve, that makes us want to partake of this great high calling. “Draw night to God, and he will draw nigh to you.” “Humble yourselves.” (1 Peter 5:6) Humble yourselves. It’s a choice! God doesn’t humble you. God gives you grace and you humble yourself. You choose to deny yourself. You choose to take up that cross. You choose to resist the devil. You choose to draw nigh unto God. You choose to come unto Him and take His yoke upon yourself and learn of Him, for He is meek and lowly in heart. “I want to be humble!” Do you? Some of us that are more outgoing, at times, in our personalities, some of us that unfortunately display our carnality and the warfare we have with the pride that’s in us, doesn’t mean that those that are sitting in the back and not making a peep or not showing themselves forth, aren’t just as proud and hard-hearted and self-indulgent as anybody else. It’s in every one of us. The nature of fallen man is to prefer self. “I will be as God. I will be independent. I will be like the Most High.” Don’t you want to be humble? Don’t you really want to be able to love others— because all we’re really talking about when we talk about humility—don’t you want to be humble? All that means is, don’t you want to be a faithful servant of Jesus, to do what His Word has ordained for each and every one of us, to love others more than we love ourselves, to fulfill the mandate of the ministry of the church to care? Each member having the same care one for another. Wherever that wound is, people are there to speak a word in season and food is brought and some will just sit there. If you want to be quiet, we’ll sit here and not say a word for an hour. If you want to talk, we’ll talk. If you want to cry, we’ll cry. The same care one for another.