Spiritual Insights For 2023 & Beyond (Part 10) The Freedom Of Humility - Nancy Wheatley

​Throughout Scripture we see God reveal to his people His plans and highlight certain focuses for the coming season of time. Each year, we pray and seek the Lord for His guidance, insights, and direction for the upcoming year. This series is an overview of some of the prophetic insights God is highlighting to the AeroNova spiritual family for the year 2023 and beyond.

No matter what storms may be raging around us, what the Lord requires of us doesn’t change. The times my change but the responsibility of the people of God to put on display the character of God never changes. And putting God’s nature on display is established on a foundation of humility.

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​Lord, we do come. And Lord, we're going to do our best to come humble. Lord, we're gonna do our best to come listening, to come truly hungering for you. Father, we are so aware, not as much as we should be. But we are aware that there are places in us that resist you. And, Lord, we don't want it. We don't want that. We want to be a home for you. We want to be a place you feel comfortable resting. Where there are no jarring elements. Nothing that offends you or grieves you. We want to be places that you can inhabit with joy. And Father, I just confess, and I invite any of my friends this morning to confess if it feels like it fits, that we're not always that for you. That there are parts of us that are opposed to you, that are still standing in rebellion, to your nature to your waves. And Lord, in the inexorable dawning of your kingdom. I believe that across your body, we are feeling the pressure of your kingdom coming. We were saying it this morning again and again. Let Your kingdom come let Your kingdom come. Do we understand that when your kingdom comes, it will cost us something that when your kingdom comes, there are parts of us that can't come in, that there is stuff that's going to have to be checked at the door because it was never part of your kingdoms. It was part of the kingdom that stands in rebellion against you and your righteous rule. Your Holiness, your beauty, and yes, your humility. And so yes, we pray, let your kingdom come. But before we can look for it to come out there. We have to be willing to pay the cost for it to come in here. So Holy Spirit, we yield this time to you. And we say you come, you speak. You reveal you convict you teach. You do all the things that only you can do. And we are here because we want to be your resting place. In Jesus name. Amen. Okay, so um I just can't seem to get enough of gazing at the beauty of humility. And so Lucy was going to speak today. And then we realized she was moving across the country this week. And that may be having her preach wasn't the kindest thing. And so. So we made a little switcheroo. And so you get me for part two of this message on humility. And honestly, I'm, I'm okay with it. Just because the Lord keeps speaking about it. I know he has to me. I hope he has to you. Just confirmations of how vitally important this is to him in this season. Really that, like Lucy prayed earlier. There are things he's doing in the earth. And we either will or won't be positioned to go with him where he's going. And I truly believe that this issue is one of the main things that would keep us from being able and prepared to move with him. So we're just gonna keep on allowing him to speak and refresh our hearts. With the beauty of holiness, in humility. What I'm discovering is that in order for us to truly appreciate and come to love, humility, the way that we need to, so that will embrace it, we really do also need to gaze upon pride. And we have to realize what pride costs us so that we can hate it enough to put it to death. If humility is, as rod said, last week, if Humility is the master key of virtues, we're going to look at that just a little bit today. That Humility is the entry point into every other virtue that there is without it, none of the rest of them are available to us. If Humility is the master key to the virtues, and I would suggest that pride might just be the master key to all the other vices to all the other sins. Pride keeps us from the promises of God, because it's through humility, that we enter into the promises of God. Pride keeps us from learning. Because we think we already know. Pride keeps us from growing, because we think we've already arrived. Pride keeps us separate from others, others from whom God intends us to receive. But it keeps us from others, because we judge because we are afraid of what other people might cost us. And we're we don't want things to cost us we don't want relationships to cost us because our good is the highest good. Here's the way God explained it to me this week. Oh, and last thing, and that pride also keeps us from worshipping God rightly. Worship is really ascribing worth to. And the only true worship is ascribing all worth to God. And if I am withholding some of that worth for myself, then I'm not giving it all to God. And so it keeps me from entering in to true worship of God, because I'm busy worshiping myself. So here's how God explained it to me this week is that pride is the self centered operating system of the fallen condition. I really liked that, and I've been just chewing on it. So I'm gonna say it again, pride is the self centered me at the center, that's the best the basis of it is that I am at the center. It is the self centered operating system of the fallen condition. Because of that it's native to our old man. It is the operating system of our old men. And that means that in the work of putting off the old man, we're going to have to become alert to the workings of pride, we're going to have to have no tolerance for it. And we're going to have to take a really active stand against us. Now maybe you do this. And if so then you should probably be up here teaching and I will yield the floor to you. But how many of us go through life, getting up in the morning and saying, God, kill pride in me. Every bit of vanity, every bit of self centeredness every bit of elevating myself, my needs, my desires over those of other people, every bit of me thinking that my good is more important than someone else's good. You kill it all. I don't want any of it. Work in me the beautiful humility of Christ that will potentially cost me everything even up to my very life. That's not been a way that I start most days. But shouldn't it be if this is actually what we want? If this is actually what God is after in his people So, here's one of my, the subjects of my daydreams. I like to dream sometimes about what it will be like to be in the heavenly realms. I started to write a short story one time, I don't think I ever finished it. Because I have tinnitus ringing in my ears. And it's been with me for a long time. And it's just, it's not like overwhelming, it's just obnoxious. And I really love silence. And it robs me of silence, because there's never silence because there's always the ringing. And so I started writing this story, imagining what it would, what it would be like, like to fall asleep here, and wake up in the heavenly realms, which by the way, I think would be the best way to go. Personally, that's like, maybe give me a chance to think about and then I'm gonna go to sleep wake up. And that sounds great to me. But here's how the story started. The first thing she noticed, when she opened her eyes, was that the ringing in her ears It was gone. Right, to just go. It's gone. And then, and then, you know, this story continued with waking up and looking around and seeing the colors that weren't discernible in the Earth realms and hearing the sounds of Heaven hearing the heavenly choruses, worshiping God and realizing I'm invited. Right? Well, so here's what I've been daydreaming about this week, what would it be like? To wake up in the heavenly realms, and have pride gone. To never again, focus on myself, to be free of the tyranny of ourselves, thinking about ourselves, worrying about ourselves, worrying about what other people are thinking about ourselves, worrying about our rights, worrying about our, our relationships with other people. And whether we're being treated fairly or not worrying about our set, just all of how many of our thoughts on any given day aren't just poured into the black hole of self. What will it feel like to have that emotional capacity back, to actually be able to use it for what God intended it to be used for, to love to give and receive love to worship Him freely to love others. And with such a sense of giving, and a freedom in giving, that we get to do it with no resentment, and no fear? That that's just the way we're designed to be. That is the way we're designed to be by the way, and that is exactly what sin has twisted, and robbed us of is the freedom to be so giving of ourselves to others, with no thought to ourselves, that we're utterly free. What will feel like? We're gonna be so much fun to be around. We're gonna be like Jesus, y'all. Kay, I also think sometimes about being there and looking back. And I know we're probably not going to do a lot of that because we're just not going to want but I think sometimes about the things that I I'm going to look back on with regret. The things that I gave myself to hear all of that time, all of that energy, all of that emotion all of the time. How much time did I spend just looking in a mirror for heaven's sake. How much time did I give that I could have been giving to better things to worrying about what other people think of me. Oh, I think sometimes attitudes that I coddled instead of crucifying things that were simply never of God. That instead of confessing the missin, repenting and turning from them, and growing up in Christ, I justified habits that I cultivated instead of asking God to set my priorities. Time I wasted on image management I'd full consideration of my appearance, self centered use of my energy, affection, money, and time. Thinking about those things makes me realize how much on any given day, I am driven by the prideful, self centered operating system. And it really makes me want to allow God to show me the fruit of pride in my life now, so that there will be less to regret. So that there will be more partnership with the kingdom of heaven. Now. We don't have to wait. But the self centered operating system is so pervasive, and honestly, so celebrated by our culture, so stinking celebrated by our culture. That we will miss it completely, without intentionality. Without, ironically, the humility to admit that it's there, to admit that we're blind to it, to admit that we're slaves to it, so that we can come before the Lord with nothing with poverty of spirit, saying God left to my own devices, I will screw this up, I will miss it. And so I need you to open my eyes. Alright, so a few definitions. The Greek word translated humility is, and this is the only time I'm going to attempt to say this. Tap in or fro Sunni, something along those lines. What it means and it's sometimes translated in different translations, it's lowliness of mind. It's, and all of the definitions that I'm going to give you today come from Spyros, zody oddities, Word Study dictionaries. So I didn't come up with any of this. It's the steaming of ourselves small in as much as we are. So it is the real estimate of ourselves. It's modesty, before God and others to humble is to bring low or a base, a humble condition, you might hear it said someone was in a humble condition, it means that they're in a condition of being needy, and poor, without status, or resources. So to humble oneself is to make oneself poor and needy. Or to acknowledge one's poverty and needs. It's it's to acknowledge the reality. So I get ready in the morning, part of that staring into the mirror that I do every day. And I do my hair and my makeup. And I can't see that well without my glasses, but I can't put makeup on with my glasses on. And so I stand in front of the mirror, and I do this stuff in more or less kind lighting, with no glasses on. And I can't tell you how many times I've fought and, and then I've gotten into my car and driven out someplace, and I flipped the visor down to check my look before I go in someplace and go, Whoa. Oh, that's what's really going on. That is not what it looked like in the mirror this morning. No, no, no, no. But that's reality. Because now I've got my glasses on. And now I'm in the harsh light of day. And that is really what that 58 year old face looks like. Oh, wow. Right. That though, is a good picture of humility, isn't it? It's, it's the reality. It's taking away all of the favorable lighting in which we view ourselves. Taking away all of the self justification of the ways that we explain away why we're so much more important than other people. And it's allowing us to see ourselves in truth the way God does. Now he also sees us with grace, but we're that's a separate issue. Right now. We're just talking about reality. We're talking about the need for humility. So We can learn a lot about something by considering its absence, right? A negative object lesson. So some of the opposites of humility are vanity, boasting arrogance, contempt for others, willful malice, recklessness toward justice, and toward the feelings of others. These opposites of humility, they all have their roots in the Greek word for neck, because they all have to do with lifting up your neck and looking around at other people in a prideful way. There are two types of sin. I'm sure there's more but two main ones that soziales mentions which have their root in pride. Allah Zinnia is a sin against truth. And so that's kind of what I was just talking about there, which is thinking more of ourselves despite the truth of our actual state. Okay. It's a puffed up view of ourselves, especially as we compare ourselves to others. Now, there's another kind of sin that has its root in pride and I found this one to be really convicting, it's Hooper. Fannia Sure, I'm butchering that, which is a sin against love. to sin against agape, which is the nature of God. Agave necessitates the searching for the needs of others and meeting those needs. I'm gonna say that again, because it's really it's taken a while for it to sink in to me, the nature of God, His agave, his agape nature is expressed in searching out the needs of others, and meeting those needs. Probably at personal cost. So the sin, Hooper Fannia, is a sin against that. It's a focus on self at the expense of others. In other words, my good is more important than your good, whoever you might be, whether that's my spouse, whether that's my neighbor, whether that's my animal. So put those together. And we have pride is an elevated view of ourselves, thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought to think. And it's a focus on ourselves, our desires, our rights, which elevates us above others in their needs, okay. So, contrast that with humility, which pops the bubble of self exaltation, and in willingly, voluntarily, lowers itself has an estimation of itself, which is based in reality. And from that, abasement interacts with both God and with other people. Humility considers the needs, desires, feelings, and worth of others. All others, no exceptions. Humility considers other rather than self. Humility acknowledges its low estate before God, and it trusts God without fear, or resentment. That's a been a big sticking point for me, because there are things that I look at and I'm like, I can put other people's needs in front of my own. I can I can do that. I do it all the time. And the Lord's like, without resentment. Okay. Yeah, I mean, sometimes, not always. Not always. All right. So, um, let's spend just a couple minutes gazing on humility. I don't have anything profound to say about it. I just keep asking the Lord to help me comprehend it, to paint a picture for me in living color. So I can just bring my heart into agreement with it. I really do believe that there is this move of God. We can, you know, we feel it and people feel it across the body of Christ. And it's not limited to Wilmore, Kentucky. And there really is this kind of if you allow a Allow yourself to feel it. This pressure of the spirit going put away childish things. Time to grow up time to manifest the nature of Christ. Time to get with the program, the program of God for our time there is there is so much stuff that we're messing around with that we don't have time for. And if we would come in humility before God and say, Lord, what time is it? I bet there's a lot of stuff. I bet there's a lot of stuff that he would say, there's not time for that. This is not the time for that. So let's take a look at a couple of pictures of humility. Okay. I'll get a second. All right. Of course, the place to start. I love the fact that Andrew and I didn't compare notes. But there were so I just let one and I didn't look ahead of time at the songs that we were doing. But I was like, we were just both hearing the Holy Spirit. Praise You, Lord, thank You, Father. We have to turn our eyes upon Jesus. I know some awesome people, and I can learn from them. But they're not the standard of humility. And they're not the standard of holiness, Jesus's. So we start there. And then we can be, we can be informed by the beautiful examples of others. And we're gonna spend some time doing that a little bit later. But we've got to start with Jesus because He gives us no, not an inch for for pride. He doesn't leave us any wiggle room for pride. And we need that because we'll wiggle if we can. Right we will, we will give ourselves a path if we can. So we have to start with Jesus. So listen to this. Matthew chapter three, starting at verse 13. Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. But John tried to deter him saying, I need to be baptized by you. And you are coming to me. And Jesus replied, Let it be so now. It is proper for us to do this, to fulfill all righteousness. And then John consented. John's baptism, and this was something that everybody including John knew, John's baptism was a baptism of repentance. That was all he preached, repent, repent, repent, repent, turn from your evil, turn back to God. That was all John's repentance, John's baptism was about. And here comes Jesus who has no need to repent. None. The only person who has ever lived, who didn't need John's baptism? And he shows up and says, Don't meet John. So why, why was it proper for him to be baptized when it was so improper for him to be baptized? Well, I don't know. But here's my guess. He had taken on our flesh. Not that he was with sin. He wasn't. But he had fully identified with us. He wasn't just God pretending to be man for a little while until he could scoot back to heaven. He became flesh. And in his baptism, he who needed no repentance underwent a baptism of repentance for us, as us this was Jesus saying I'm with them. fully identify myself with them. I am one of them. He had the right to be worshipped. He had the right to be recognized as the Son of God. He had the right to be treated as the king he was. He had the right to the obedience and adoration of his creatures. And instead he came as one of us and he took on our status as humility we would know better what humility that was if we had seen him in his glory with the Father beforehand. And we will know better what humility that was when we see Him in His glory in the eternal realms, and will be little puddles of worshipping goo on the floor, when we see him for who he is. But for now, we can gaze on this picture of humility. And say, Lord, I don't get that. So instruct my heart. Here's another one. This is from Matthew 26. Starting at verse 36. Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to them, Sit here while I go over there and pray. He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him. And he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me. God in need, in need of his friends. Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me? Yet, not as I will. But as you will. Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping, couldn't you men keep watch with me for one hour, he asked theater, watch and pray, so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away a second time and prayed my father. If it is not possible for this cup to be taken away, unless I drink it, may Your will be done. When he came back, he again found them sleeping because their eyes were heavy. So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time saying the same thing. Jesus had from all eternity been God. He was with the Father, one substance with him. And Jesus, that night, he knelt in the dirt he had created. And out of which he had formed this rebel race that he was about to die for. And he knelt in a body he had designed, and he had breathed the breath of life into any he held the fate of his creation in his hands. And he could have refused. He could have wiped us out and started over again, when remember when God wanted to do that with Moses and the children of Israel. He's like, let me wipe them out. I'll start again with you. I believe he could have done that. He could have called for rescue. And instead, he allowed himself to be taken into custody. beaten, tortured, shamed, crucified by sinful men. prideful, blind, stupid, sinful men. Here we catch a glimpse into how Humility is the master key of all the virtues, because we see astonishing meekness in Jesus here. Meekness can be summed up with I could, but I'm not going to its strength under restraint. Where does Jesus unspeakable meekness come from here? From his humility, from choosing to honor others, us, above himself and above his own good. Tom gave me this meat book for Valentine's Day. I'm going to just share a short passage from it's by Max Lucado. It's called in the footsteps of the Savior following Jesus through the Holy Land. And it's just it's a it's a trip through the Holy Land interspersed with some of Mexico's devotions. He says this, I invite you to think carefully about the supreme test, Jesus faced. Hebrews 12 Two offers this intriguing statement, Jesus exit Did the shame as if it were nothing. Shame is a feeling of disgrace, embarrassment and humiliation. Forgive me for stirring the memory. But don't you have a shameful moment in your history? Can you imagine the horror you would feel? If everyone knew about it? What if a video of that event were played before your family and friends? Your worst moment? How would you feel? That is what Jesus chose to feel. Why? You asked. He never did anything worthy of shame. Know that we did and be infants on the cross God made him become sin. Jesus was covered with shame. He'd never felt that before. He was shamed before his family, stripped thank it before his own mother and loved ones, shamed before his fellow men, forced to carry across until the wait caused him to stumble. Shamed before his church. The pastors and elders of his day mocked him calling him names shamed before the city of Jerusalem, condemned to die a criminal's death. Parents likely pointed to him from a distance and told their children's that's what they do to evil men. But the shame didn't compare with the shame Jesus felt before His Father. Our individual shame feels too much to bear. Can you imagine bearing the collective shame of all humanity? One wave of shame after another was dumped on Jesus. Though he never cheated. He was convicted as a cheat. So he never stole heaven regarded him as a thief. Though he never lied, he was considered a liar. Though he never lusted. He bore the shame of an adulterer. And though he always believed He endured the disgrace of an infidel, He became sin. Our sin such words stir one urgent question, how? How did he endorse such disgrace? What gave Jesus the strength to endure the shame of all the world? We need an answer, don't we? I focusing on the joy set before him. I preached a message on that last Easter you can go back and listen if you want to. I'm not going to go into it. Now. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this. Because I want to have time for us to share. But I just so strongly encourage you to spend some time this week in Philippians chapter two, please, please. Here's Paul, who is standing astonished. He's gazing, Paul is on what we just gazed upon. And he is astonished by the humility of Christ. And he points to that humility. And he says, in light of that, what should our response be? For us to be the recipients of that kind of humility, and to remain proud is for us to completely miss the point. Paul is pleading for us in Philippians chapter two, to not miss the point. Much of the Church throughout these two millennia have missed the point anyway. Let's not miss the point. Listen just to a few of his words. Make my joy complete by being like minded. Having the same love being one in spirit and have one mind Do nothing out of selfish ambition, or vain conceit. I'm such a big believer in journaling with scripture. Right? So I read something and then I'm going to ask God questions. I'm going to journal what I hear him saying to me. How about this for a journaling prompt? Lord? Is there anything in my life that comes from selfish ambition or vain conceit? If you don't ask good questions, you don't get good answers. And he has lots of good answers for us, that He waits for us to ask often. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, rather, in humility, we so skim over this, I skim over this, maybe you don't I do in humility, value others, not even equal with yourself, above yourself, make others more important to you than you are not looking to your own interests, but each of you to the interests of the others. He goes on to to offer this I think it we think it's an an early him this picture of Jesus. And he talks about the humility of Jesus as a downward spiral that he lowered himself by taking himself taking on flesh, making himself nothing, by taking on the nature of a servant, being made in human likeness, being obedient to death, even death on a cross. And then the spiral turns because he humiliated himself, a base himself, lowered himself to the very lowest point, becoming the filth of humanity, and the servant of all humanity. Because of that, there's a therefore their God has exalted him to the highest place, gave him the name that is above every other name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth, and under the earth, and every town acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. So he's showing us, we humble ourselves, but we don't stay there because then God exalts us, because humility glorifies God. And when we glorify God, we align ourselves with Him, and His glory just splashes all over, it's his glory, but we can't not get soaked in it. And so he goes on to talk about what it looks like to operate in humility, do everything without grumbling, or arguing, oops. So that you may become blameless and pure children of God without fault. Like, I just want you to hear this, because this is the word that he's speaking over our generation, become blameless, and pure children of God without fault, in a warped and crooked generation, then you will shine among them like stars in the sky, as you hold firmly, to the word of life. That's the call. That's the need. That's the invitation. And like I said, at the beginning, will either accept the invitation and allow the Holy Spirit of God to show us the things in us that can't come into the kingdom. As the kingdom comes, there's going to be increasing pressure on that. And we will either harden our hearts against it, and insist to stand in our pride in our rights in our desires, essentially opposed to the reign and rule of God. Or we will allow him to help, we will allow him to help us crucify those things. Because that's the only answer for them. So as we look at the brush strokes, we see in Jesus that humility is at least in part, a surrender of one's own rights, for the good of others. Its submission to God and to others without fear or resentment. It is trusting God even when the cost is high. It results in meekness which is being submitted to and content with what God has provided the path he has chosen for us. Real soup real quick, just a few other brushstrokes. Consider Adam and Eve. They had been given everything by God made the regions of His creation. What was the problem? They grasped for more. They were not content with everything God had given them. And the supreme position he had given them to cope as his co servants, yes, regions here on the earth. That wasn't enough for them. They deserve more. So when more was offered, they took it. We talked last week of of Israel. And the fact that their refusal to enter the Promised Land was actually based in pride. They elevated their opinion over gods. I know God said we can take them. But I'm looking at us. And I think I trust my opinion more than God's. Instead of in humility, agreeing with God, they look to themselves to make their decisions. So humility is believing God as well as submitting to his plan. Consider another example from Israel's early history when the Gibby knights came to deceive Israel into making a covenant with them in Joshua nine, they did not ask the counsel of the Lord. Now, you might say, but just presumption, right? Well, we're just presumption come from. I trust me, I'm awesome. I make great decisions. I can be trusted to make the right decision in this. So humility asks God, a humble heart is a praying heart. Consider John the Baptist, he knew who he was and who he wasn't. He had an incredibly powerful ministry, who had and he accepted the role that God had assigned to him. We saying today parts of the Lord's Prayer, the Lord's Prayer positions us in humility, Jesus gave us a key, if we will pray that and look for all the ways it's in every line, as we position ourselves to glorify God, for His Kingdom, not ours, for his will, not ours. When we acknowledge I can't even come up with my own daily bread. Lord, I stand forgiven. And because I stand forgiven, who am I to hold a grudge against anybody else? I pray the Lord's prayer every morning. And this is usually how I pray the next line. Jesus, I am nothing but a stupid sheep. And left to my own devices, I will wander into every kind of temptation. So Deliver me from the evil one because I'm not smart enough to do it. Yours is the kingdom. I want to end with this. This is just a little excerpt from you know, we're all hearing a lot about Asbury. This was a behind the scenes look from somebody who was invited there to serve. She says this, and I just think this is so significant in the the move of God. They ask, and this is talking about the little team of college students that's behind the scenes. They ask Jesus for wisdom in every decision. No decision for worship is human strategy or planning. They pray. They asked Jesus and then they discern together. They speak in turn by raising hands and submitting to one another as they make decisions. It's like nothing I've ever seen before. They're all united when a decision is made. They have a process for collecting worship teams. This is what it looks like. The Holy Spirit highlights people in the room. And those the little group of five in charge, called the worship stewards, then ask those students to lead in a worship band. That newly formed worship band, even if they've never played together before, gets prayed for in the outside Hall. And then they go into the consecration room. This is where spirit filled hidden prayer warriors pray over this newly formed team. This goes on for 30 minutes or more. Then the worship teams comes back down the stairs acclimates the room and finally after an hour of preparation behind the scenes, switches out with the team on stage that's been leading. They don't want any team to lead worship that has not been prepared in this way. No platform given until ready. This ready can take up to an hour. So who are these college worship leaders at the Asbury outpouring you will never know. They are a nameless and faceless generation. They are rebelling against the celebrity culture infiltrating the church. They chose to remain hidden with no live stream visible lyrics moving lights or big screens. Their motto is radical humility, ethnic unity, they hope to steward one thing, a simple offering of song represented by every ethnicity. This person says we must quickly wake up to the fact that an emerging generation hungers desperately for the supernatural, and rebels against any form of religious entertainment. All of that that has been birthed out of the pride of man. Do you see where pride has no place there? I don't think it's isolated. I think it's the invitation. So Father, we just come before you. We ask for wisdom. Lord, what does humility look like? For us, what does it look like in our relationships? What does it look like in our finances? To honor others above ourselves? What does it look like in our politics? What does it look like God for us to be those who shine like stars with your brightness in the midst of a very broken generation? We need your wisdom God, we won't figure this out on our own. And so we come asking that you would work the beauty of holiness in humility in us in Jesus name. Amen.