Devotionals about Humility & Character
Character is what's left when the applause stops, and humility is the soil where it grows. These devotionals on humility and character are plain-spoken messages about becoming the kind of person God can trust when no one is watching.
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273 devotionals in Humility & Character
January 27, 2020
Pride vs Humility: What Do You Hate?
How often do you find yourself hating things? Oh, I do all the time. I hate this traffic, I hate all this rain, I hate bad starts, I hate the other political party, etc. I’m pretty sure if we are honest with ourselves we all are a little guilty...So it got me thing a little about this notion of “...
truthJanuary 24, 2020
Balancing Truth and Grace Like Jesus
So I’ve been diving into the idea of Truth and Grace as it pertains to us and how we may identify with one or the other. Let me explain. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”John 1:14 So truth...
prayerJanuary 21, 2020
When God Answers Someone Else's Prayer First
You ever been praying for something in your life only to see the very thing you’ve been praying for land on someone else? I know I have, and I suspect you have too. But here is the good new when that happens. God is still answering prayers! He just hasn’t answered yours yet. It also doesn’t mean...
repentanceJanuary 10, 2020
Getting Back on Track Through Repentance
So I got to thinking about how life seems to ebb and flow with good times and bad. More specifically, as I was driving back from Nashville, I got to thinking about how we can get stuck in the bad. I’m talking about that “stop the world I just want to get off this ride” feeling. We’ve all had it,...
power-of-wordsJanuary 9, 2020
Think Before You Speak
I’m really enjoying diving into the area of the power of words. We need to be conscious of how we use them and the results of what will happen when we do. That means we need to be actively thinking about what and how we use our words. “The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the mou...
wise-speechJanuary 8, 2020
Some Things Are Better Left Unspoken
So I’m out of town this week and at our Annual Sales Meeting. As you can imagine, these meeting are full seeing old friends from around the country, reflecting on our past years success and catching up on company rumors. It’s the last part that causes me frustration. You see the Bible mentions th...
patienceJanuary 7, 2020
Patience Under Pressure: Building Character
We live in a world that is going by so fast that finding patience is becoming a lost art. However, one of the best ways to be patient is to carry on with life, knowing God is in control...not you. I will say it one more time, “God is in control, not you.” “Not only that, but we rejoice in our suf...
new-yearJanuary 1, 2020
New Year, New Purpose: Living Without Regrets
So here we go, New Year New Me stuff! Yep, we made it another year and its time to start the annual right of passage called New Year’s Resolutions. But as you make those resolutions, ask yourself a simple question, “what will my epitaph read?”Where am I going with this you may be asking? Well, ha...
perseveranceDecember 5, 2019
Press On: Finding Redemption After Failure
I’ve been reading through a year and a half of my devotionals I’ve written and came across this one from 2018. I love it, so it’s worth rereading. I hope you don’t mind...This life isn’t easy, in fact it’s hard. We all have struggled and we all have failed but we must move on...“Not that I have a...
faith-testingNovember 19, 2019
God Speaks Through Circumstances
Let keep talking about listening to God and looking for his answers. “for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”James 1:3-4 Look, I think it’s pretty evident that God sp...
wordsNovember 15, 2019
The Power of Your Words
Let’s close this week with a thought about the words that come out of our mouths. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”Proverbs 18:21 ESVYou see, words can be the fruit of our thought and our hearts and can be used to encourage and lift up oth...
gentlenessNovember 4, 2019
The Strength of Gentleness
So at church service yesterday, all saints day, they were recognizing those “saints” whom have passed away this year from the congregation. While it was wonderful to hear the names called, including my fathers, I couldn’t help but notice how kind and gentle everyone was. All day long, I felt like...
trustNovember 1, 2019
Being Trustworthy and Dependable
It’s been a busy week and I’ve enjoyed our readings and have had some good conversations springing up from them. One of which came up this week about trust. It came up in the context of one of you said, “I can count on and trust you sending the morning devotional.” That has sat on me a while and...
self-controlOctober 24, 2019
Self-Control: A City With Strong Walls
“A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.”Proverbs 25:28 ESVI stumbled across this Proverb and I just had to take pause to think about it, so let’s discuss it. So God gave us free will to do what we want to do. We can eat unhealthy, smoke, drink excessively or...
patienceOctober 23, 2019
Learning Patience: Waiting on God's Timing
I have been forced to learn a lot about myself this year and one of the things I’ve learned is I need to get better with patience. Not only with life but mostly with people! I always thought I was a relatively patient person until I started trying to really learn what it meant to be patient...evi...
humilityOctober 22, 2019
The Glory of Overlooking Offense
I’m sure many of you have heard of C.S. Lewis. He was a prominent 20th century theologian who said, “Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.” I bring it up because I’ve been thinking about what I am seeing in the Media and how we’ve become so PC these days. Everyo...
wordsOctober 17, 2019
The Power of Life and Death in Your Words
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”Proverbs 18:21 Shifting gears a little bit today, so bear with me. I had a situation today that came up and my instinct was to let someone have it. I mean I was hot! But I could feel a presence about the si...
humilityOctober 14, 2019
God Gives Grace to the Humble
How humble do you think you are? Are you prideful and boastful? I ask because God is close to the humble and broken hearted. No one is perfect. We all have sinned. But what makes us beloved to God is our willingness to accept our sinful condition and return to Him. You see, David was a man after...
spiritual-growthSeptember 11, 2019
Are You Living in Growth Mode with Christ?
So here’s a question for you. Are you living in growth mode with your relationship with Christ? What I mean is, are you actively reading, meditating and growing your relationship with God?Let’s be honest, none of are going truly going to “get there” with our relationship until we meet Jesus face...
mind-renewalSeptember 10, 2019
Transform Your Mind: Focus on God's Truth
What are you thinking about? What are you feeding your mind? What we allow our minds to focus on influences our actions. That’s why it’s so important to pay attention to what we are thinking about. I can tell you it’s been critical for me the last two weeks! But seriously, are you focusing on joy...
humilityAugust 14, 2019
Humility: Thinking of Ourselves Less Often
“So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility coun...
prideJuly 25, 2019
Don't Believe in Yourself - Believe in Jesus
I had a great conversation yesterday with one of my friends (and new member to the devotional beginning today) and we were discussing times when we feel like “we got this” and we believe in our own selves and stop relying on God. You see this is caused by or led by Pride, the first sin. Pride tel...
waitingJuly 24, 2019
Who's Really Waiting? God's Perfect Timing in Our Lives
You ever feel like your waiting for God’s plan for you? I sure do, but what if all this waiting isn’t really us waiting for God but rather Him waiting for us? What I am getting at is who is actually doing the waiting? We may think it’s us, but we could be wrong. Think about when Abraham asked God...
communityJuly 8, 2019
Guarding Against Pride Through Christian Community
Well I hope everyone had a great 4th of July holiday and I hope you took pause to reflect on how blessed we are to live in such a great country. Last week I posted an article titled, “The ungrateful American”. The article was triggered by the outwardly vocal and seemingly ungrateful few soccer pl...