The Secret to Waiting
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· 8 viewsAn attitude of lowliness and obedience, grounded in the recognition of one’s status before God as his creatures.
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What are the hardest things to wait for when you’re a kid? A teen? An adult?
Christmas - Independence - Love - Wealth
Want to know the secret to waiting? Humility - An attitude of lowliness and obedience, grounded in the recognition of one’s status before God as his creatures.
Waiting without humility is not waiting
Waiting without humility is not waiting
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The beatings will continue until morale improves.... “The waiting will continue until morale improves”
The beatings will continue until morale improves.... “The waiting will continue until morale improves”
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Dr of Psychology, Jim Stone in Psychology Today - The word impatience is "im" + "patience," which, on its face, means “a lack of patience.” Patience seems like a substantial thing—a specific mental process. By contrast, impatience is thought to be nothing but a lack of patience. But this gets things backwards: Impatience, it turns out, is a very particular mental and physical process that gets triggered under specific circumstances, and which motivates specific kinds of decisive action.1 "Patience" is really the shadow term, signifying a lack of impatience. The patient person simply wasn’t triggered to impatience when others normally would have been, or she found a way to overcome the impatience that did arise.
Somewhere along the way, we got these states backwards: Impatience should be seen as primary, and patience should be thought of as...well, "im-impatience."
Humility is inevitable
Humility is inevitable
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
You rescue the humble,
but you humiliate the proud.
Humility has a payoff
Humility has a payoff
he has brought down the mighty from their thrones
and exalted those of humble estate;
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Humility linked with repentance:
Humility linked with repentance:
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Humility linked with repentance:
Humility linked with repentance:
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because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.” When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son’s days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”
Humility linked with God’s favour:
Humility linked with God’s favour:
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Though the Lord is great, he cares for the humble,
but he keeps his distance from the proud.
He leads the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble his way.
You rescue the humble,
but you humiliate the proud.
For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly,
but the haughty he knows from afar.
The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom,
and humility comes before honor.
The reward for humility and fear of the Lord
is riches and honor and life.
He leads the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble his way.
For you save a humble people,
but the haughty eyes you bring down.
lack of humility linked with disobedience
But I, when they were sick—
I wore sackcloth;
I afflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.
Here are two small things you can do to humble yourself while you wait:
But you have rejected us and disgraced us
and have not gone out with our armies.
1. Be thankful for what you have (What has Jesus provided?)
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2. Be okay with your situation not changing (Is Jesus is enough?)
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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Outstanding individuals
Outstanding individuals
Jacob; Joseph; Moses; Saul
David:
David:
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Solomon; Daniel; John the Baptist; Elizabeth; Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ
Paul:
Paul:
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Other examples
Other examples
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The example of Jesus Christ
The example of Jesus Christ
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
The humility of Jesus Christ foretold:
The humility of Jesus Christ foretold:
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