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Remember how the LORD your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands. Deuteronomy 8:2 NLT
Have you ever wondered if reflecting on a negative event could make it positive?
That’s what Moses told God’s people to do—to remember the forty years they were humbled in the wilderness. He wanted them to understand that to make a genuine contribution in a person’s life, humility has to be humanized—negative events have to be remembered.
Remembering personal lessons in humility can help you transform your experience too. It can help you find God in places you have forgotten—in your surf and turf (Deuteronomy 8:3, Luke 4:4) and in your lakefront property and financial security (Deuteronomy 8:12-13).
It was remembering his failures that gave John the Baptist the humility to step down so Jesus could step up (Luke 7:28), that gave David the humility to glory in God (Psalm 64:10), that gave Moses the humility to center his leadership on the Lord (Deuteronomy 8:11). Each of these individuals rejoiced in remembering how God led them “all the way” through the humbling events of their lives, and you can too.
Prayer: Lord, help me to spend time today thinking through an event You used in my past to humble me and teach me what was really in my heart.
Have you ever wondered if reflecting on a negative event could make it positive?
That’s what Moses told God’s people to do—to remember the forty years they were humbled in the wilderness. He wanted them to understand that to make a genuine contribution in a person’s life, humility has to be humanized—negative events have to be remembered.
Remembering personal lessons in humility can help you transform your experience too. It can help you find God in places you have forgotten—in your surf and turf (Deuteronomy 8:3, Luke 4:4) and in your lakefront property and financial security (Deuteronomy 8:12-13).
It was remembering his failures that gave John the Baptist the humility to step down so Jesus could step up (Luke 7:28), that gave David the humility to glory in God (Psalm 64:10), that gave Moses the humility to center his leadership on the Lord (Deuteronomy 8:11). Each of these individuals rejoiced in remembering how God led them “all the way” through the humbling events of their lives, and you can too.
Prayer: Lord, help me to spend time today thinking through an event You used in my past to humble me and teach me what was really in my heart.
