Humbled

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A hidden heart is easily hardened and leads to our attempted justification of poor choices, but a humble heart can be restored through repentance.

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June 8, 2019 - Being humble when it is chosen by you is a wonderful thing. It benefits everyone. When you are humbled by circumstances or misdeeds, not so much. It is sorrowful. Most of us have experienced this side of humility far more often. The fact that pride leads to destruction seems to be one of the most ignored truths in all of scripture. Even though we have experienced it, we still allow pride to lead us down selfish paths to temporary pleasures. And yet, sin still gives birth to inescapable consequences. We have to break this cycle.

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So then, what are we to do? Son, I want to encourage you to awaken each day with a renewed sense of surrender and repentance. Pride and fall produce guilt and shame. We don’t need more of that in our lives. We can no longer choose to run and hide like Adam and Eve. It’s really kind of pointless anyway.  We can’t hide from God. Instead, we must daily turn toward God in humility, admit our wrongs, and allow him to hit the reset button and wipe away the memory of our sin.

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