God–and Psalm 69:32 Amp - The humble shall see it and be glad; you who seek God, inquiring for and requiring Him [as your first need], let your hearts revive and live!
There is an
important lesson in this and other places of God’s Word, namely that humility
and gladness go together. What do the humble and the joyous have in common?
They both look up. The humble are those who don’t look down on anyone because they
look up all the time. They have to look
up, because their eyes are on God, and He’s above them. The joyous always look
up as well, otherwise they wouldn’t be rejoicing. The joyous believe the Good
News, so they rejoice!
The
prideful, however, are those who think they’re above everything else and so
they look down on people. The prideful are connected to the others who look
down - the cynical, the doubting, the despairing, the depressed, the sorrowful
and the hopeless. In the same way that the humble and the joyous go together,
so do pride and despair. Humility leads to joy. Pride leads to despair.
Let’s get
our eyes off ourselves, off of our problems, off of the world around us. Let’s
fix our eyes on Him, the Redeemer of our souls. Those who look up in humility,
also look up in joy!
Psalm 118:24 This is
the day which the LORD has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
When the kids
still lived here I woke them every school morning with, “Rise and shine, rise
and shine! This is the day which the LORD has made; Let us rejoice and be glad
in it.” It seemed to me a much more positive way to wake up and more loving than
flipping on the lights. When the first words you hear are words of rejoicing in
the day God gave us, rather sets the tone. This day and every day, let’s fix
our eyes on Him and be glad!
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