June 25, 2022

Passage Read: Amos 7 - Obadiah 1
Meditation Verse: Amos 8:4

Thought

To be humble is to be vulnerable to those who are not. The prideful think nothing of taking advantage of the poor and humble, even to the point of driving them out of the land. They don't care about the poor, they just want to get rich, and the poor and the humble are easy targets. The poor have no power to fight back, and the humble refuse to defend themselves. But God sees and detests the behavior of the proud and arrogant. He will let the arrogant man do his evil, so that he is condemned by his own actions, and He will return to the innocent what they had stolen or extorted.

Application

It is hard to be humble, especially when there are those who would see the opportunity and take it, to gain ascendancy over the humble. But my hope has to be in the Lord, that He will repay my faith and obedience to humble myself and endure the abuse of the proud. If I can bring truth for the sake of others through this, then it will be good for many. If not, then it will still end well for me, though perhaps not until eternity.