Daily Devotional

HUMILITY BEFORE GOD IS GREAT GAIN

March 10

hild of the King, so you have a problem with addictive behavior and this problem sometimes makes you feel like a “second class” Christian! You are often angry with yourself saying, “If I could get free of this bondage, I know I could go to much higher levels of victory, joy and service to my Savior!” Further, you are angry with yourself and desperately declaring, “Father, help me!” But no matter how upset you are you remain in their control, as though helplessly and hopelessly locked into your prison. Do you think that your Father has not seen your sorrow and sadness? Do you think that He has ignored your cries and pleas for deliverance? Again, you say, “If I could only get free, this is the one thing that causes my Father to be ashamed of me and refuse to bless me!” You have just made a mistake in your reasoning. First, there is no such thing as a “second class” Christian. That person does not exist in the universe. You were as fully washed in the precious blood of the Lamb as any of your brothers and sisters when you entered your born again, salvation experience. Your Father joyfully and readily opened His Book of Life and therein wrote your name with tears of happiness for you, and plans for your future in Him. Rejoice, beloved, you are fully mine! Second, I am not ashamed of you by any means, and I say unto you “look around you, have I truly withheld from your life my blessings of grace, love, peace in Christ and the promise of eternity?” Here is the root of your problem, and the reason that you are not delivered from your bondage: Child, areas of weakness have been allowed in your life for several reasons. In my word I have said, “My grace is sufficient for thee (Paul) for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” (II Corinthians 12:9a) This is not to say that your Father promotes sin in your life, He does not! However, if you were perfect in all your walk with God and never had any weakness to overcome (and I fully expect that you will overcome your unholy appetites), then you would become “puffed up” and lean heavily on your own boast of personal perfection and holiness, and you would soon forget the pit from which you were dug. Christians who think that they are perfect tend to look down on other members of the Body of Christ and cast judgment on them for their failures. This is cooperating with an evil spirit of superiority and judgment. Do you want this in your life? I don’t think so! You protest, “That kind of attitude would never be a part of my life!” Child, you don’t know what you can do in the “flesh!” In my word I warn you that “. . . the flesh, (that is in my flesh) nothing good dwells.” (Romans 7:18a NKJV) Quit making excuses for your failures to go forward, love yourself, and stop casting judgment against yourself. This is what locks you in to misery. As you judge yourself, you are receiving that judgment. Your Father loves you and will come and deliver you, just start loving and accepting yourself even in your weaknesses!

Prayer

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Father that is the key. I have used the excuse of my weakness to condemn and judge myself. I have sinned against myself by doing so and sentenced myself by this judgment and crippled myself from allowing your precious Holy Spirit to deliver me! Forgive me Father, I am running to you and praising you for your mercy and love! You have done it again Father. You are not leaving me in my bondage, in Jesus’ name, amen!