Humble Yourself

Today's devotional is from A Daily Taste of Proverbs

"When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom” - 11:2.

When you are dependent on God and others, you open yourself to answers and help that are beyond your abilities and experience. When you stubbornly and proudly say, "I can handle this," even though you can't, you set yourself up for failure and disgrace. Are you disguising pride as something else, like not wanting to bother anyone else with your problems? Are you overconfident in your own abilities? Do you see that God created you to need others who also need you?

To see the power of humility, read what Nineveh did in response to Jonah's preaching in Jonah 3. In short, God sent a work of judgment, they humbled themselves, and God was moved to relent and spared their lives.