IDENTIFIED BY HUMILITY
MEMORISE: He
hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of
thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy
God? (Micah 6:8)
READ: Micah 6:3-8
After you are born
again, God expects you to engage in only things that are good. Your
deeds must be right and they must tally with what He will do in the
circumstance. So also your thoughts must be right, for as you think so
you will become. The righteous is very careful about what he thinks, for
what defiles a man is inside of him. Anything he will entertain in his
Heart must have passed the test recorded in Philippians 4:8:
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are
honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if
there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
This means the righteous has no time to dwell on anything with lies,
dishonesty or impurity. No space for anything unrighteous, bad or
lacking in virtue. In the heart of the righteous, there is no space for
gossips, hearsays, and backbiting. No space for anything that does not
glorify God. What occupies the space of your heart? What do you think of
regularly? For the righteous, his or her heart is constantly fed with
God's Word, edifying things, and things that will help to establish the
fellow in the faith. What do you frequently listen to?
The
righteous does only what is right and upholds justice. If you are
righteous, you cannot stand injustice, not to talk of being unjust to
someone. The righteous is identified by the level of mercy he shows and
how he walks in humility before God. Humility is one major mark of
identifying the righteous. When sinners are humble, you can almost take
them for believers, yet a humble sinner is still a sinner bound for Hell
except he or she allows that humility to bring him or her to repentance
and to accept Jesus Christ. If you are proud, you are not righteous.
You cannot have what will make God to destroy you and still claim to be
like Him. Are you righteous?
KEY POINT
No matter the depth
of humility of a sinner, the fact that he or she has refused to accept
God's Gift - Jesus Christ, he or she is proud.
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