Tag: humility
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True confession
Proverbs 28:13 “Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.” One of the clearest proofs of how sin has affected humanity is the way that it has infected our minds. So much of what we think is best for us is actually very detrimental, and vice versa. If…
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The wonderful shadows of Jair and his sons
Judges 10:3-4: “After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years. And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.” In the verses above we have all that the Bible tells us about the judge Jair, Israel’s savior,…
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Confidence with humility
Judges 6:36-38 “Then Gideon said to God, ‘If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel…
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The road to humility
Deuteronomy 8:2-3 “And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor…
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Godly sorrow
Psalm 119:136 “My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.” Some emotions we would rather avoid, and one of them is sorrow. No one likes to feel sad. Sadness is usually associated with loss; perhaps loss of health, or property, or life. There are various degrees of sadness, ranging from…
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