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SUBMIT-2

Text:1 Peter 5:5

Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for   God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."

The scripture instructed that we should be clothed with humility, the word 'cloth' is used just as in girding or binding  oneself with something. So, God wants you to wrap yourself with humility so as to become one with it

It is therefore your responsibility to put on humility, God will not do that for you. If God  humbles you, that means you have been brought down by Him. Hence, you must take deliberate steps to keep yourself humble.

A person who has humbled himself is a person who has subjected himself to another; either to God or to man. Such a person can no longer be put down or dragged on the ground. The only option that is opened to  a humble man is exaltation.

A humble man is a lowly man, hence, he can only be exalted by God. He (God) has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted the lowly. (Luke 1:52).
It is clear that the proud are sitting on a type of throne. This throne is not God's throne but pride. God will pull down the proud from their throne because God resists the proud. 

 *A proud person cannot approach God because God will always resist him.* 

While every man has the tendency to be proud, due to the fallen nature, the last Adam (Jesus Christ our Lord) has come to deliver us from this evil and sinful nature. 

Even as God, Jesus Christ humbled himself unto death. Apostle Paul clearly outlined the depth of humility that Jesus demonstrated both as the divine being and human. Phillipians 2 says, *"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to [the point of] death, even the death of the cross.(Philippians 2:5-8).* 

The result of Christ's humility was ascension to the throne. The case cannot be different for you as well. *You will only ascend the throne on the ladder of humility and not by self-exaltation.* 

Let Christ's mind be in you and you will learn how to ascend the throne through humility.

*BIBLE READING* : 

Phillipians 2:5-9

 *PRAYER FOCUS* 

Father, please, help me to always humble myself. 

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