Christian Devotional – July 6, 2023

Through Suffering, Day 18

Humility and anxiety. Read 1 Peter 5:5-7.

I’ve read these verses hundreds of times before, and even memorized them, but I never noticed that verse 7 comes right after verse 6. The Lord is commanding us through Peter to be humble. We are to humble ourselves so that God can raise us up at the proper time.

Still, how often the idea of humbling ourselves can make us worried or anxious about how it will turn out. Well, verse 7 says that we are to cast all our anxiety on him. We are to humble ourselves and we can do it without fear because we have trusted in God to raise us up and care for us. Are we humbling ourselves? Are we casting our anxiety about that and everything else in our life on the Lord?