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Tuesday... Let's be encouraged together.


Tuesday... Let's be encouraged together.

And a great place to look is God's Word and Proverbs 3 is a great place to start.

I love verses 5 & 6 (NLT). They are life verses for me and they are a great place to start in this new year. It says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take." That is a great place to start, isn't it?

But I kept going and I found verse 26 (AMP) and it says, "For the Lord will be your confidence, firm and strong. And will keep your foot from being caught [in a trap]." He will show you which path to take and then He will keep your foot from being caught in a trap and He will be my confidence.

And then verse 34, "Though He scoffs at the scoffers and scorns the scorner, yet He gives His grace [His underserved favor] to the humble [those who give up self-importance]."

Now we can have all the confidence in the world. We can trust ourselves to do something great in this new year but we can only go so far. Look how we handled Covid on our own. For many that wasn't a great path that we took. And no way did we have grace in the midst of all the division. And some are still at odds with others who didn't agree with them. And we for sure don't want to look at how we handled the election. Both sides were caught in a trap. No grace there.

But the humble, the ones who gave up their self-importance are a different story. The same is true of those who put their trust, not in themselves but in the Lord and then those that put their confidence in the Lord. And His grace comes to those who are humble. Who don't have all the answers.

So let's be encouraged as we face a new year of opportunity no matter what is ahead, to be humble, to set aside ourselves, to give up our self-importance and to put our trust in the Lord and let Him be our confidence. So let's be encouraged together and see what happens. I believe He will show us the path to take, He will keep our foot from being caught in a trap and He will give His grace, His undeserved favor to those who give up their self-importance. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


 

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