Father says you’re not supposed to worry about your daily life.  We need to be humble like children.  You see, we think we have to provide for ourselves.  If we were humble like children, if we really believed God was the provider, why would we have any concern at all about these things?  Isn’t that the proper theology—seek first the kingdom of God, His righteousness, and all of these other things will be added unto you?  Do you believe that?  “Yeah, I believe that.”  Self-reliance is…  We talk about how God is the source of so many things in our life and then believe we’re responsible to bring them about.  A child—childlike faith, a humility that is so dependent that it doesn’t take any thought, any care whatsoever.

So, you see, as we’re talking about humility, we’re talking about the other aspect other than how we relate to one another.  How do you relate to God?  Do you trust your Father?  Have you humbled yourself to that place of obedience, of trust, of reliance, of assurance?  Those are the definitions of faith, right?  Jesus came in absolute dependence of His Father and said, “I did not come to do My will, but the will of Him that sent Me.”  So, I want to encourage us in these in these days that we’re living in right now.

I talked about the fact that there are so many other things out there in the secular realm that are trying to steal our trust of God.  They’re wanting us to put our hope in them, whether it be our jobs that we spoke of, our hope in what medical science can provide, our sharp minds that allow us to invest properly in the stock markets, whatever our portfolios might be.  Where is your trust?  If your trust is in any of those things, you are living a prideful, independent life; you are not humbling yourself before God and truly believing that He is our sole provider.  So, let’s get humble as it relates to Him.  Let’s die daily so that we can come into that realm where we’re free from being wise in our own eyes, for there’s more hope of a fool than for that man.

We’re admonished in Proverbs, this great statement that I would get in your notes and get in your hearts.  You’re all familiar with the passage in Proverbs 15, verse 33, “before honour is humility.”  Before honor is humility.  Is that thing in you this evening that we can recognize, own up to it…  And there’s nothing wrong with it; it’s just how we come about receiving these things, obtaining these things.  But the desire to advance, the desire to have more that pertains to this life.  We know that the Scripture says, “The blessings of the Lord make rich and add no sorrow.”  How do we get about receiving those blessings of the Lord?  Through humility; amen?  There’s no other way to it.  The Scripture tells us in James, Chapter 4, verse 6, that “God resists the proud, but He gives grace unto the humble.”  Let’s say it another way: God resists the independent person, but He gives grace to those that are trusting in Him, that are not self-reliant, that are not trusting or looking to or reliant upon the things of the world.  James, in that same chapter, goes down in a couple of verses in verse 10 and says, “Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord and He will lift you up.”  Amen?  And then that chorus goes, “Higher and higher.”  Are you wise in your own eyes?  Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord.  “I don’t know how to go out or to come in.”  When we can stay in that mindset, God can use us; amen?  But delivering ourselves from that independent thinking to where we’re constantly looking and seeking God’s mercy and grace, to prefer others above ourselves.