Humility is realizing all we have to bring is listening God’s leading and yielding to His Spirit.
Humility
Humility is realizing all we have to bring is submission: hearing God’s leading and yielding to His Spirit.
Intellect, effort, works, etc. are futile efforts of pride.
Add one interpretation or self-effort to anything God gives and it’s distorted.
One Christian told me, “God gave us intelligent minds and we need to use them.” That sounds good, but it’s not how the Bible speaks of the human mind. When we are born again, our spirits are joined to the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is there to lead from that time going forward. We aren’t called to figure things out and lean on our own understanding but rather to listen to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Even when reading the Bible, the Holy Spirit speaks to us and gives us the interpretation. When we come in with our own understanding, we don’t really see Scripture as God intended it.
2 Corinthians 3:14–16 (KJV)
“But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.”
The veil is the fleshly mind, the soul under the influence of the flesh. It acts as a veil to distort every aspect of life, even Scripture. But when we turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Proverbs 3:5–6 (KJV)
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
Allow Him to direct your paths.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 (KJV)
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart…”
The human mind cannot be trusted.
Matthew 15:19 (KJV)
“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.”
The world and demonic powers have planted their seeds in the minds of every person. They have built strongholds in your mind that are difficult to overcome. Those strongholds become so much a part of you that they seem to be more real than reality itself, but they are lies on top of lies.
Romans 12:2 (KJV)
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Once we are born again, we begin to listen to the Holy Spirit. We shouldn’t add to His words or diminish any of His words. And we need to allow Him to lead us and do His works through us. That’s how He transforms (transfigures) our minds.
Romans 8:6-7 (KJV)
“For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God…”
At every moment, our carnal mind is giving us advice and trying to influence us. Often, evil spirits are also involved. However, if you have been born again, the Spirit of Christ lives in you, and He also speaks to you. When you are tempted by your carnal mind, the Holy Spirit shows you the way to escape.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (KJV)
“(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”
The Holy Spirit has given us weapons. The words He speaks to us are our sword to pull down the strongholds (preconceived ideas, bitterness, emotional triggers, theologies, imaginations, habits, and disorders) the enemy has built in our minds.
Philippians 2:5 (KJV)
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus…”
This is a new mind. When you are born again, you receive the Seed. That Seed is the Living Word, Jesus Christ. He is holy and cannot sin, and He lives in you. As you listen to His voice and yield to His Spirit to the point the He does His works through you, that Seed, Christ, in you becomes greater and the old carnal nature gets weaker.
Proverbs 4:23 (KJV)
“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”
This is your most important work. Do not submit yourself to the ideas of the world. Yield your mind to God.
Ezekiel 36:26 (KJV)
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you…”
God intends to transform your heart as you listen to His voice and walk in submission to Him. This is what it means to walk in the Spirit. You walk a step at a time. God leads. God’s faith comes by hearing God’s Word. God’s Word (Jesus Christ) authors God’s faith in you. You believe. God’s faith gives you access to God’s grace. God’s grace does God’s works through you as you yield. The Seed (Jesus Christ) is planted deep in your heart, and you continue to be transformed from glory to glory with each step.
Hebrews 10:39 (KJV)
“But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.”
1 Peter 1:9 (KJV)
“Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.”
God has saved your spirit, and He will be faithful to complete the work by saving your soul, your mind, your heart. He is bringing life to your soul each time you listen and yield to Him, when you are led by the Spirit. But don’t try to be double-minded, depending on the Holy Spirit plus your own intellect. That won’t work. You have nothing you can add to God’s revelation, though your pride may want to add to what God says.
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