1 Peter 5:6-7

“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.”

Being humble under God’s mighty hand, means to know His way works better than ours. When we try to go our own way, we become selfish. Being selfish leads to being prideful. Being prideful leads to sin, and sin will separate us from God.

Pride can and will destroy us. In Daniel chapter 4, we see just how destructive pride can be. Pride keeps us from admitting when we are wrong, and it will rob us of the clarity of God’s plan for our life. You will never regret killing your pride and being soft hearted.

Pride can also block the grace that we have been extended by Jesus, and the grace that He asks us to give to others. To humble ourselves to God means to submit to His will and know we can’t solve our problems and addictions on our own. God has a plan for us and it is a perfect plan. He will cancel our plans to save our lives. His plans are always better than ours.

As Paul writes in Philippians 4:11, when we learn to be content in whatever circumstances we find ourselves, that’s when God works in our life. In verse seven, Peter tells us to cast every single worry onto the Lord because He cares for us. Verse six tells us to humble ourselves, and verse seven tells us why we should: to know we need Christ in times of struggle.

God will take whatever we are dealing with into His own hands as long as we trust in him. Give him your worries and accept His peace, and He will give you rest. He will carry you and make a way. He always does.

We have to know that we need God during the good times and the bad. If we try to go our own way, He will knock us on our backs to humble us so our hearts will become soft for Him. God will let you hit rock bottom, so you will realize He IS the rock at the bottom.

That’s what is so good about God! He is good all the time. The song comes to my mind, “He’s a good, good Father”. Even though we sin, He gives us grace upon grace, and He never leaves us, even during the hard stuff. We find the best things just sitting with Jesus. His timing is always perfect.