by Chris Martin | Jul 16, 2025 | Articles, Mentors Corner
“Thus says the Lord, ‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that I may rest? For my hand made all these things, thus all these things came into being? Declares the Lord’, “But to this one I will look, to him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My Word” (Isaiah 66:1-2). Time and time again in His Word, God turns our attention toward our need to be humble. In fact, it is discussed over 80 different times in the Bible. In our Isaiah passage the Hebrew word has a definition that includes to be “afflicted, humble, lowly, needy, poor.” In the New Testament Greek it carries a similar meaning of “to be cast down, of low degree, lowly.” The opposite of humility is pride, arrogance, conceit, boastful, or proud. How does a man achieve this posture of humility? It is certainly something that God has called the man of God to investigate and pursue. In fact, God says in Zephaniah 2:3 “seek the Lord all you humble of earth who have carried out His ordinances: Seek Righteousness, SEEK HUMILITY, perhaps you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger.” The passage instructs us to SEEK humility in addition to SEEKING righteousness. The seeking of humility is as important as, and should be to the same degree, that we seek righteousness. We are to PURSUE it, CHASE after it, be DILIGENT towards achieving this “posture” of humility. So how do we do this? I propose...
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