May 25 – The Strength in Humility

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today.

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May 25th The strength and
humility.

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We live in a world that is
constantly measuring followers,

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grades, achievements, status.
Everything gets ranked and it’s

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easy to feel like you need to
keep up or prove yourself.

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The pressure is real and it’s
relentless, and sometimes the

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response is to push harder, to
compete more aggressively, to

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make sure people know what
you’re capable of.

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But Proverbs chapter 16, verse
19 offers a perspective that

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genuinely challenges that
instinct.

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It is better to be of a lowly
spirit.

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With the poor than to divide the
spoil with the proud.

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In other words, humble and less
beats prideful and plenty.

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The company you keep, the spirit
you carry, the posture of your

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heart matters more than how
impressive your position looks

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on the surface.
That’s a completely different

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set of values from what culture
typically promotes, and it takes

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real courage to live by it.
Verse 20 adds something

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beautiful.
Whoever gives thought to the

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Word will discover good and
blessed is he who trusts in the

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Lord.
Notice those two things,

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Thinking carefully about God’s
Word and trusting in the Lord.

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These aren’t passive activities.
They require intentionality.

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You have to choose to slow down,
to reflect, to bring your heart

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to God rather than just reacting
to everything around you.

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And the promise attached to that
kind of life is blessing.

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Not necessarily wealth or fame,
but something deeper, goodness

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discovered along the way, and
the steady settledness of a life

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built on trust.
Psalm 59, verse 8 shifts

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perspective in a way that’s
actually quite funny if you sit

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with it.
But you, O Lord, laugh at them.

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You hold all the nations in
derision, the enemies and

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arrogant forces that feel so
threatening to us.

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God is not rattled by them.
He holds all the power, and the

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schemes of the proud are, from
his vantage point, ultimately

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futile.
That doesn’t mean injustice

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doesn’t matter or that we should
be dismissive of real pain, but

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it does mean that when you’re
facing betrayal, when someone

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has wronged you or made your
life harder, God sees it and He

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is not powerless.
You don’t have to take matters

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into your own hands to make
things right.

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Galatians chapter 6, verse 10
then brings us back to the

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ground level with beautifully
practical instruction.

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So then, as we have opportunity,
let us do good to everyone, and

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especially to those who are of
the household of faith.

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As we have opportunity, that
phrase is worth pausing on.

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Opportunities to do good
surround you every day.

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They’re just easy to miss or
dismiss as too small to matter.

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The kind word to someone who
looks like they’re struggling.

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Defending someone who’s being
talked about unfairly.

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Showing up consistently for the
people in your life who need

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you.
Serving in your church or youth

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group even when it’s not
convenient.

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These aren’t glamorous things,
but they are the things that

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build genuine strength of
character, the kind that doesn’t

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depend on other people’s
recognition or ranking.

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The kind that, as Proverbs puts
it, lasts.

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True strength isn’t loud.
It’s quiet, consistent, and

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rooted in something that doesn’t
shift.

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You don’t have to compete for
your value.

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You don’t have to prove yourself
to anyone.

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God sees you clearly, He values
you deeply, and He’s inviting

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you to live from that secure
place humbly, faithfully, and

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usefully.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
showing me that real strength

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doesn’t look like what the world
applauds.

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Help me to choose humility over
pride, even when it costs me.

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In the moment when I feel the
pressure to compete or prove

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myself, remind me that my worth
is already settled in You.

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Teach me to trust You in the
unfair moments knowing you see

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everything, and help me to use
every opportunity I have today

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to do genuine good for the
people around me in Jesus name,

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Amen.
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darkness loses every right to
stay?

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Proverbs, chapter 16, verses 19
to 20 World English Bible.

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It is better to be of a lowly.
Spirit with the poor than to

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divide the plunder with the
proud.

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He who heeds the Word finds
prosperity.

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Whoever trusts in Yahweh is
blessed.

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Psalm Chapter 59 World English
Bible Deliver me from my

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enemies.
My God set me on high from those

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who rise up against me.
Deliver me from the workers of

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iniquity.
Save me from the bloodthirsty

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men, for behold, they lie in
wait for my soul.

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The mighty gather themselves
together against me, not for my

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disobedience, nor for my sin.
Yahweh, I have done no wrong,

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yet they are ready to attack me.
Rise up, behold, and help me.

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You, Yahweh, God of armies, the
God of Israel, rouse yourself to

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punish the nation’s.
Show no mercy to the wicked

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traitors.
They return at evening howling

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like dogs and prowl around the
city.

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Behold, they spew with their
mouth.

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Swords are in their lips, for
they say, Who hears us?

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But you, Yahweh, laugh at them.
You scoff at all the nations.

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Oh my strength I watch for you,
for God is my high tower.

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My God will go before me with
his loving kindness.

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God will let me look at my
enemies in triumph.

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Don’t kill them, or my people
may forget.

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Scatter them by your power and
bring them down, Lord our

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shield.
For the sin of their mouth and

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the words of their lips.
Let them be caught in their

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pride for the curses and lies
which they utter.

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Consume them in wrath.
Consume them and they will be no

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more.
Let them know that God rules in

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Jacob to the ends of the earth.
At evening let them return.

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Let them howl like a dog and go
around the city.

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They shall wander up and down
for food and wait all night if

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they aren’t satisfied.
But I will sing of your

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strength.
Yes, I will sing aloud of your

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loving kindness in the morning.
For you have been my high tower,

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a refuge in the day of my
distress.

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To you my strength I will sing
praises, for God is my high

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tower, the God of my mercy.
Galatians Chapter 6 World

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English Bible Brothers, even if
a man is caught in some fault,

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you who are spiritual must
restore such a one in a spirit

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of gentleness, looking to
yourself so that you also aren’t

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tempted, bear one another’s
burdens, and so fulfill the law

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of Christ.
For if a man thinks himself to

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be something when he is nothing,
he deceives himself.

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But let each man examine his own
work, and then he will have

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reason to boast in himself and
not in someone else.

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For each man will bear his own
burden.

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But let him who is taught in the
Word share all good things with

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him who teaches.
Don’t be deceived.

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God is not mocked.
For whatever a man sows that he

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will also reap.
For he who sows to his own flesh

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will from the flesh reap
corruption, but he who sows to

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the Spirit, will from the Spirit
reap eternal life.

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Let’s not be weary in doing
good, for we will reap in due

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season if we don’t give up.
So then, as we have opportunity,

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let’s do what is good toward all
men, and especially toward those

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who are of the household of the
faith.

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See with what large letters I
write to you with my own hand.

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As many as desire to make a good
impression in the flesh compel

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you to be circumcised, just so
they may not be persecuted for

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the cross of Christ.
For even they who receive

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circumcision don’t keep the law
themselves, but they desire to

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have you circumcised, that they
may boast in your flesh.

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But far be it from me to boast,
except in the cross of our Lord

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Jesus Christ, through which the
world has been crucified to me,

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and I to the world.
For in Christ Jesus neither is

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circumcision anything nor
uncircumcision, but a new

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creation.
As many as walk by this rule,

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peace and mercy beyond them and
on God’s Israel.

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From now on, let no one cause me
any trouble, for I bear the

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marks of the Lord Jesus branded
on my body.

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The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ.

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Be with your spirit, brothers.
Amen.

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