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
June 13, 2025
Give in Secret
Let’s continue down this journey of what lies in our heart that is behind our actions. Yesterday we talked about having to lofty opinion our ourselves and how that aligns with God’s views of our actions. Today, I’d like to take this a little further and talk about how we give and why. We live in...
humilityMay 28, 2025
Two Ways to Learn Humility: The Hard Way or the Worse Way
I think at some level we all struggle with pride and have a hard time with humility. I know I do, at certain times more than others. How do you grow in humility? I know of two ways. One of them is hard and the other one sucks. The first and hard one, is to value humility so much that you develop...
identity-in-christMay 27, 2025
Your True Identity: Adopted Child of God
Ask yourself this, what is your identity? People mostly answer that question with a title. I’m a mom. I’m a dad. A golfer, racer, vegan, cross fitter, husband or wife...whatever. But that’s not necessarily your identity. It’s regarding the world but what about your identity in Christ? Well, you’r...
life-without-jesusMay 26, 2025
Life Without Jesus: A Foundation of Gratitude
What would your life look like without Jesus? I don’t know if you think about that, but I think about it often. I cringe at the thought of what my life would be without Jesus. I’m sure my heart would be cold because I felt it headed that way when I met Christ. I’d probably be pretty lonely. I may...
godly-counselMay 13, 2025
The Wisdom of Godly Counsel
As I’ve grown older and I hope wiser, I’ve learned quite a few things that I couldn’t have accepted when I was younger and more stupid. One of the most glaringly things, obvious to me now, is I could never have gotten where I am today both professionally and personally without the help and counse...
prideApril 16, 2025
When Hate Is Pride Leaving the Body
This has been an emotional roller coaster week for me and I’ve had plenty to think about…the reality of life for one, so it got me thinking. How often do you find yourself hating on things? Oh, I do all the time. I hate this traffic, I hate all this rain, I hate this time of year where I make 37...
truth-and-graceApril 15, 2025
Finding Balance Between Truth and Grace
So I’ve been reading a little and 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 trut...
patienceMarch 31, 2025
Learning Patience Under Pressure
A simple thought to start your week…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...
patienceMarch 7, 2025
Finding God's Voice in Your 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...
trustFebruary 20, 2025
Building Trust Through Dependability
It’s been a busy week already and it’s only Thursday and I had a good conversation spring up from our morning chats. 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.” I’ve had folks tell me this...
judgmentFebruary 19, 2025
Slow to Judge, Quick to Understand
“A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.”Proverbs 18:2 How quick do you judge others? How often do you feel misunderstood? I will be honest, I’m guilty of both. Look, no one likes to be misunderstood, yet we often make faulty judgments of people and situatio...
self-controlFebruary 13, 2025
Self-Control: Building Walls of Spiritual Strength
“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...
patienceFebruary 12, 2025
Learning Patience: A Journey of Self-Discovery
I have been forced to learn a lot about myself the last three years 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 pa...
humilityNovember 18, 2024
True Heroes: The Power of Humility
These last few years have been somewhat disappointing but at the same time gratifying. You see, somewhere in the crazy journey of mine to grow my relationship with Christ, I think I’m beginning to learn what humility all means. For years I set my sights on accomplishing things that defined “who”...
prideNovember 4, 2024
Naming Our Struggles: Pride, Lust, and Entitlement
So we all have to deal with pride, lust and entitlement to some degree. Some more in one area than others. But to be able to deal with the weak areas of our life we need to be able to name it. For me, it’s mostly pride. But keep in mind, we are only as strong as we are honest. “Do nothing from se...
perseveranceOctober 31, 2024
Grinding It Out: How Perseverance Builds Character
Grinding it out and persevering builds character. Plain and simple. Something about endurance has the incredible capacity to refine you. I guess it’s kind of like a fire for silver, removing impurities and strengthening the character. Often because endurance goes hand-in-hand with trials and tria...
patienceOctober 16, 2024
Waiting on God's Perfect Timing
How are we doing waiting on God’s Plan for us? I ask because I’ve been a bit “all over the place” lately wanting to be done with treatments but knowing they’re going to be indefinite…it’s frustrating, but I have to relax and wait. “Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wa...
humilityOctober 10, 2024
Following Jesus: Living with His Mindset
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.”Philippians 2:3-4 What are we doing here? What is reading the Bible, prayer, and Christianity all a...
graceOctober 9, 2024
Hard Work as Worship: Paul's Lesson on Grace
We can learn a lot from Paul...“For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, bu...
humilitySeptember 30, 2024
Overlooking Offenses with Grace
I was reading last night and ran across a quote/idea I’m sure I’ve written about but it’s worth revisiting. 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...
prideAugust 2, 2024
When Pride Says 'I Got This'
Like history, a lot of things seem to repeat themselves. Many times I have the same conversations and write about the same things here. Well, today is no different. I had a great conversation with one of my friends yesterday and we were discussing times when we feel like “we got this” and we beli...
angerJuly 1, 2024
Ending Arguments: The Power of Controlled Speech
“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.”James 1:19-20Seeking revenge or trash talking someone else when they hurt us is easy to do. We all have time everyday where someone has...
weaknessJune 21, 2024
Embracing Weakness: When We Are Weak, Then We Are Strong
Without a doubt, this is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the...
wise-speechJune 5, 2024
Better Left Unspoken
I got to thinking recently how some things are better left unspoken; don’t give them airtime. In other words, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it at all...right? Proverbs 10:19 “In the multitude of words sin is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is wise”.Some things are b...