James: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
To me, "humble yourselves" means that I am my truest self, my most vulnerable self, my self that is not my ego, before the Lord.
Recently I listened to Michael Bernard Beckwith of the Agape Institute when he talked about the Self without the ego. I believe he referenced a Japanese saying, to view yourself as the self (face) before your parents were born.
As mentioned in an earlier blog, we may have inherited our father's eyes or our mother's nose, but our soul belongs to God. That is the self (face) God most wants to spend time with and to see on a regular basis. That is the self with which we may need to become reacquainted. That is the miracle self, before worldly thoughts and limiting beliefs entered our lives.
Recently, I was chatting with a friend about just such a thought. He mentioned that he didn't have self-love. I told him about the birth of my first child. How that child was/is a miracle from the very beginning. That he is a miracle. I am a miracle. Everyone on earth is a miracle because they were all born as miracles. The fact that one sperm and one egg produced each miracle here today is awesome (by awesome, I mean that pertaining to God).
Is it possible to be humble before God, whilst knowing we are miracles? Of course! That is the part God knows and loves about us. When a baby is born, there is no ego attached to that child, no end game in mind, and no limiting beliefs. That baby is full of God's potential and love. A baby lives in the present moment and allows us the opportunity (forces us) to live in the present moment as well.
May we spend time today in God's presence, as our humble self, shedding those limiting beliefs and that ego, so we can bask in His love, believing we are His true miracles. Living our lives as the true miracles we are.
April 10
Matthew: Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! for it is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’”
Mark: When he was alone, those who were around him along with the twelve asked him about the parables.
Luke: for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,’
John: Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
Acts: let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that this man is standing before you in good health by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead.
Romans: How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised.
1 Corinthians: We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
2 Corinthians: always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.
Galatians: You are observing special days, and months, and seasons, and years.
Ephesians: He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.)
Philippians: I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned for me, but had no opportunity to show it.
Colossians: Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greets you, as does Mark the cousin of Barnabas, concerning whom you have received instructions—if he comes to you, welcome him.
1 Thessalonians: and indeed you do love all the brothers and sisters throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, beloved, to do so more and more,
1 Timothy: For to this end we toil and struggle, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
2 Timothy: for Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to
Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
Hebrews: for those who enter God’s rest also cease from their labors as God did from his.
James: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
1 Peter: Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received.
1 John: In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Revelation: the twenty-four elders fall before the one who is seated on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever; they cast their crowns before the throne, singing,
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