January 14 – Stay Humble, Stay Wise

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, January 14th.

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Stay humble, stay wise.
Have you ever felt the pressure

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to prove yourself to be the
smartest voice in the room, the

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strongest 1 standing?
The person who never backs down

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or admits weakness.
Whether it’s in school, at work,

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online, or even among friends,
it can feel like humility equals

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losing.
Like if you don’t promote

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yourself, someone else will pass
you by.

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But God’s wisdom tells a very
different story.

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Proverbs chapter 3, verse 35
says the wise will inherit

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honor, but fools get disgrace.
Notice what it doesn’t say.

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It doesn’t say the loudest
inherit honor.

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It doesn’t say the most
aggressive, the most praised, or

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the most impressive inherit
honor.

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It says the wise do.
And biblical wisdom is always

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tied to humility, knowing who
God is, knowing who you are, and

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living from that place with
trust instead of ego.

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Psalm 7 pulls the curtain back
even further.

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In verse 9, David prays, oh, let
the evil of the wicked come to

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an end and may you establish the
righteous you who test the minds

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and hearts, Oh righteous God.
God doesn’t just see our

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actions, He sees our motives.
He knows why we say what we say,

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post what we post, and do what
we do.

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We might fool people, but we
never fool God.

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And the good news is he isn’t
looking for perfection.

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He’s looking for honesty,
humility, and hearts that are

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open to being shaped.
Then Jesus speaks directly to

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the part of us that feels tired
from trying to hold it all

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together.
In Matthew Chapter 11 verse 29,

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he says, take my yoke upon you
and learn from me, for I am

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gentle and lowly in heart and
you will find rest for your

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souls.
Think about that.

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Jesus, the Son of God, describes
himself as gentle and humble.

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He doesn’t lead with pressure or
pride.

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He leads with grace.
And he invites you to learn his

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way of living, a way that
doesn’t crush your soul but

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actually gives it rest.
Staying humble doesn’t mean

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thinking less of yourself, it
means thinking of yourself less

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and trusting God more.
Staying wise means being

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teachable, staying grounded, and
letting God define success

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instead of chasing applause.
When you choose humility, you

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createspace for God to lead.
When you choose wisdom, you

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position yourself for the kind
of honor that lasts.

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You don’t have to prove
yourself.

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God already sees you.
Walk humbly.

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Learn from Jesus, let him carry
what’s heavy and guide you in

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what’s ahead.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, help me walk in
true wisdom, not driven by pride

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or the need to impress others.
Teach me to stay humble and to

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learn from Jesus who is gentle
and lowly in heart.

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Search my motives, shake my
heart and lead me in Your truth.

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I choose your wisdom over my own
and Your peace over pressure.

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In Jesus name, Amen.
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Proverbs chapter 3 verse 35
World English Bible The wise

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will inherit glory, but shame
will be the promotion of fools.

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Psalm Chapter 7 World English
Bible a meditation by David

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which he sang to Yahweh
concerning the words of cush the

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benjamite.
Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in

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you.
Save me from all those who

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pursue me and deliver me, lest
they tear apart my soul like a

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lion ripping it in pieces, while
there is no one to deliver.

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Yahweh, my God, if I have done
this, if there is iniquity in my

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hands, if I have rewarded evil
to Him who was at peace with me,

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yes, I have plundered Him who
without cause was my adversary.

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Let the enemy pursue my soul and
overtake it.

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Yes, let Him tread my life down
to the earth and lay my glory in

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the dust.
Selah.

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Arise, Yahweh, in Your anger,
lift up yourself against the

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rage of My adversaries.
Awake for Me.

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You have commanded judgment.
Let the congregation of the

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people surround you.
Rule over them on high.

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Yahweh administers judgment to
the peoples.

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Judge me, Yahweh, according to
My righteousness and to My

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integrity that is in Me.
Oh, let the wickedness of the

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wicked come to an end, but
establish the righteous.

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Their minds and hearts are
searched by the righteous God.

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My shield is with God who saves
the upright in heart.

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God is a righteous judge, yes, a
God who has indignation every

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day.
If a man doesn’t repent, he will

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sharpen his sword.
He has bent and strung his bow.

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He has also prepared for himself
the instruments of death.

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He makes ready his flaming
arrows.

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Behold, he travails with
iniquity.

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Yes, he has conceived mischief
and brought out falsehood.

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He has dug a hole and has fallen
into the pit which he made.

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The trouble he causes shall
return to his own head.

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His violence shall come down on
the crown of his own head.

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I will give thanks to Yahweh
according to his righteousness,

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and will sing praise to the name
of Yahweh.

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Most High Matthew Chapter 11
World English Bible When Jesus

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had finished directing his 12
disciples, he departed from

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there to teach and preach in
their cities.

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Now when John heard in the
prison the works of Christ, he

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sent two of his disciples and
said to him, Are you he who

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comes, or should we look for
another?

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Jesus answered them, Go and tell
John the things which you hear

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and see.
The blind receive their sight,

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the lame walk, the lepers are
cleansed, the deaf hear, the

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dead are raised up, and the poor
have good news preached to them.

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Blessed is he who finds no
occasion for stumbling in me.

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As these went their way, Jesus
began to say to the multitudes

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concerning John, What did you go
out into the wilderness to see?

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A Reed shaken by the wind.
But what did you go out to see?

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A man in soft clothing?
Behold, those who wear soft

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clothing are in King’s houses.
But why did you go out to see a

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prophet?
Yes, I tell you, and much more

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than a prophet, for this is he
of whom it is written.

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Behold, I send my messenger
before your face, who will

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prepare your way before you.
Most certainly, I tell you,

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among those who are born of
women, there has not arisen

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anyone greater than John the
Baptizer.

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Yet he who is least in the
Kingdom of heaven is greater

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than he.
From the days of John the

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Baptizer until now, the Kingdom
of heaven suffers violence and

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the violent take it by force.
For all the prophets in the law

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prophesied until John, if you
are willing to receive it.

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This is Elijah who is to come.
He who has ears to hear, let him

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hear.
But to what shall I compare this

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generation?
It is like children sitting in

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the marketplaces who call to
their companions and say, We

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played the flute for you, and
you didn’t dance.

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We mourned for you and you
didn’t lament.

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For John came neither eating nor
drinking, and they say he has a

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demon.
The Son of Man came eating and

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drinking, and they say, Behold,
A gluttonous man and a drunkard,

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a friend of tax collectors and
sinners.

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But wisdom is justified by her
children.

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Then he began to denounce the
cities in which most of his

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mighty works had been done,
because they didn’t repent.

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Woe to you, Corazon, woe to you,
Bethsaida.

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For if the mighty works had been
done in Tyre and sight in which

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were done in you, they would
have repented long ago in

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sackcloth and ashes.
But I tell you, it will be more

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tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on
the Day of Judgement than for

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you, You, Capernaum, who are
exalted to heaven, you will go

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down to Hades.
For if the mighty works had been

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done in Sodom, which were done
in you, it would have remained

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until today.
But I tell you that it will be

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more tolerable for the land of
Sodom on the day of Judgement

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than for you at that time.
Jesus answered.

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I thank you, Father, Lord of
Heaven and Earth, that You hid

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these things from the wise and
understanding and revealed them

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to infants.
Yes, Father, for so it was well

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pleasing in your sight.
All things have been delivered

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to me by my Father.
No one knows the Son except the

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Father.
Neither does anyone know the

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Father except the Son and he to
whom the Son desires to reveal

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him.
Come to Me, all you who labor

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and are heavily burdened, and I
will give you rest.

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Take My yoke upon you and learn
from me, for I am gentle and

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humble in heart, and you will
find rest for your souls.

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For My yoke is easy and My
burden is light.

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