God bless!

     One of the hardest things to do in life is to humble oneself. I guess the reason it’s so difficult for us is because it takes a huge amount of trust in the other party that they won’t simply trample and destroy our attempt for peace (and simultaneously trample our pride). In other words: we are scared they will take advantage of a moment of apparent weakness. The key in this is to understand that the process of humbling oneself is not weakness but rather strength. What??? Yes, it takes all the authority within us to stand in the face of adversity and not react in the same fashion that we can theoretically be treated. Now what is needed for this process to become easier? FAITH. When we understand the heart of God all of a sudden things that seem impossible to do become easier because we realize that all instruction from the Lord comes with strength and resources to complete the task at hand. This completely applies to humbling oneself as well, when we view the process of humbling ourselves as something we are doing for God and not the person, we are engaging and all of a sudden our view of this process changes. The person becomes irrelevant and the point of bringing a smile to our Savior becomes our #1 priority. I encourage you today to have faith in whatever task God is putting before you, whether it be a big issue or a small one either way let’s use faith as a crutch to make God smile over us. You can do it and when you do, He promises to lift you up!

Pastor Joell A. Perez