is GOD opposing or consulting?...

another way you can practice courageous humility is to practice surrendering your plans to GOD.

this is what we usually do. we make our plans without even consulting GOD. then we pray and ask GOD to bless our plans, which we didn’t ask HIM to be a part of. we assume that our plans are HIS will. then when our plans don’t happen on the timetable we want them to happen or they don’t happen at all, we get angry at GOD. that’s called pride. GOD hates pride. HE’s very serious about pride.

james 4.6-7 (cev) says, GOD opposes everyone who’s proud but HE gives grace to everyone who is humble. so surrender to GOD. you don’t want GOD to oppose you.

i can think of a lot of people i wouldn’t want to have as an opponent, opposing me. i would not want to be in a boxing ring opposed by evander holifield in his day. i would not want to be on a basketball court opposed by lebron james. i would not want to be opposed by bill gates at an auction. there’s no way i’m going to be winning that one.

but i really don’t want to be opposed by GOD, because there’s no way i’m going to win that battle. the bible says that when i am prideful, GOD is not just mildly irritated at me. HE’s in opposition to me at that very moment. i’m playing GOD. GOD’s opposed to me. i’m an enemy of GOD any time i get full of pride. that’s how serious it is. so he says, surrender yourself to GOD. what does it mean to surrender yourself and your plans to GOD?

romans 6.13 (tev) says, give yourselves to GOD and surrender your whole being to HIM to be used for HIS righteous purpose.

surrendering means, “GOD, i’m going with YOUr plans for my life, not my own. GOD, i’ve got plans, i’ve got dreams, i’ve got goals, i’ve got ambitions, but i know that YOU put me on this earth for a reason, for a purpose, and GOD, i’m going to intentionally choose YOUr plan for my life instead of my own. i know YOU’re not going to reveal it to me all at once. it’s going to come a little bit at a time, so i’m going to take it a step at a time, but i want to go with YOUr plan, not mine.” that’s humility. that’s called being humble, surrendering your plans to GOD.

just a thought from the front porch…