Humility

DEVOTION

PROVERBS

HUMILITY

Prov 15:25

25 The LORD tears down the proud man's house but he keeps the widow's boundaries intact.

NIV

The world is full of riches or wealth and many a person spend a great deal of time and effort in the pursuit of gathering as much as possible for their own pleasures. The amount of homes which far exceeds the needs and even staggers the imagination of wants is overwhelming. Certainly a great number of people who live this extravagant lifestyle have made wealth, success and self-gratification their god. Many of their homes are an edifice to themselves. It is true God does bless people with many good things, but this saying is concerned, almost a condemnation against those who have built their very own tower of Babel against the face of God. They claim all the fame and glory for their displays of abundance of wealth, and God will not allow them to keep them forever. This could certainly also apply to the proud man’s life, for God is not going to allow him to keep that forever as well, it will be torn down. But to those who are down cast, the poor of the world, the window who is in fact the victim of the rich, God will lift up. It seems it is not easy to trust God when we can gather things for ourselves, but when needs are in want, and situations of life are not so good, it seems it is easier to seek God for assistance, for sustaining us. Some of the prideful, if not all, refuse to seek God for they are their own god, providing all their every need or desire. Wealth in itself is not a bad thing, as God has blessed many with much of it, but it is the prideful attitude which God hates. He has told us to humble ourselves before him, to submit to his authority in our lives, to seek his face, to acknowledge him as not only our Savior, but our provider, our sustainer, our all in all, that all we are, all we have, all we do is because of him. This is certainly a lesson about humility.