One of the lessons from the Word of God that I picked up on early in my walk with Him is that God does NOT think as man thinks! When "religious" people try to put the God of the Bible into their particular religious box, they usually come up severely short changing their own lives. Numbers 22:19 is good Scripture to meditate on when YOU are tying to decide if something that SEEMS to be too good to be true really is TRUTH (John 17:17).
19 God is not a man, that He should tell or act a lie, neither the son of man, that He should feel repentance or compunction [for what He has promised]. Has He said and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken and shall He not make it good?
Does God's Word SAY it? Then DARE to BELIEVE it! AMEN! Now, let's look at Kenneth and Gloria Copeland's "From Faith To Faith" devotional again today:
And be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble. 1 Peter 5:5
Most believers don't know anything about true humility. If you tell them they're the righteousness of God, they'll fight to keep from believing it. You can give them scripture references to prove it, and they'll still argue.
"Oh no," they'll say, "I'm not righteous. I'm just an old sinner saved by grace." They're making a sincere attempt to be humble. But they're sincerely wrong. They're so afraid of being exalted by pride that they've let Satan trick them into falling right into it. Let me show you what I mean.
According to 1 Peter 5:5-6, to be truly humble is to submit to God. That means when God says something, you believe it no matter how foreign to your "religious" thinking it may be. When He says you've been made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, you say that too. In fact, you wouldn't dare say anything else because to do so would be to dare to disagree with God. And, when you get right down to it, that's the ultimate form of pride, isn't it?
Don't let Satan keep you groveling in the dust of false humility. Agree with God. Find out what His Word says about you, then be bold enough to say it yourself. Banish pride by submitting to His truth. Clothe yourself in true humility. It's sure to look good on you.
AMEN! Refuse to walk in self-centered pride, making your own thoughts higher priority than God's! IF God said something, then THAT is what He meant AND means! AMEN! Here is Hillsong United with "Say The Word":Shalom in Him!
