by Trent - originally posted August 15, 2005
I went to San Antonio for a business trip. On the way there, I got 3 miles less per gallon of gas.
What was hindering me going to San Antonio, and helping me as I left there? It was The wind in my face one way and at my back on the way back home .. so the difference was not that the wind changed, but that MY direction changed.
It is written that God gives grace to the humble and resists the proud. So if God resists us and we want His grace instead, what can we do to change Him?
Well, hopefully I've made the point that He remains the same like the wind that resisted me in one direction and pushed me in the other direction ...
My experience CAN change with God .. as I humble myself. However, God is always the same, yesterday and forever ... He will always resist the proud and bless the humble ...
I want to change from arrogant to humble.
Did you know that I have to humble MYSELF? Nobody can do it for me. God refuses to do it. He might bring me low as a catalyst, but ultimately I must respond and humble myself.
Servants, stand up! says the Lord of Hosts. Stand up for Me, and I, even I, shall feed you with knowledge and understanding...the Word of God as your drink, and the knowledge of the Lord as your meat...you shall sing and you shall stand up, you shall shout with a new voice in the face of adversity. And in that very same day, you shall be gone, you shall surely be taken and be found no more in the earth...eternal joy and all tears wiped away in the presence of the Lord, your Redeemer, is your reward, and it shall never again depart from you, says the Lord. [Jesus speaking] (Servants, in Christ, Stand Up and Blow the Trumpet! - Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 6)