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
September 14, 2022
The Power of Words: Life or Death
Let’s talk about the words that come out of our mouths for a moment. These words can be from in person speech to the written word…they can also be from how we respond to someone’s comments as well. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”Proverbs...
gentlenessAugust 31, 2022
The Strength of Gentleness: Choosing Kindness Over Harshness
So yesterday I was treatment (Treatment Tuesday’s as I’m calling it) and I couldn’t help but notice how kind and gentle everyone was. These angels that work in a cancer center are amazing. All day long, I felt like I was being tapped on the shoulder and God was whispering in my ear, “I love the B...
trustAugust 30, 2022
Building Trust: Being Dependable Like Our Heavenly Father
It’s been a busy week already and it’s only Tuesday 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.” That has sat on me a while a...
humilityAugust 18, 2022
The Glory of Overlooking an Offense
Todays topic has been on my mind a couple days now and I knew I had written about it in the past. Well, I found it, we discussed it back in October of 2019…we’ve been at this a while!I’m sure many of you have heard of C.S. Lewis. He was a prominent 20th century theologian who said, “Humility is n...
power-of-wordsAugust 16, 2022
Death and Life in the Power of the Tongue
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”Proverbs 18:21 What is coming out of our mouths? The words that come out of our mouth have the power to build up or destroy. We who are created in His image have this powerful gift of using words for the bu...
witnessingJune 30, 2022
Being an Effective Witness by Being Like Jesus
So, I’ve been reading through Philippians and talking about how we need to get to work to spread the word of Jesus. It’s been enlightening reading about Paul and his struggles and his witness. But it’s been brought up to me and asked, “how exactly do we be an effective witness?”Well, look at it l...
humilityJune 28, 2022
Living for Christ, Not Ourselves
“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...
integrityJune 8, 2022
Guarding Against Pride's Fall Through Community
Yesterday, I was in a conversation with a co-worked, friend and member of this group, and we were talking about the erosion of faith and integrity in our country and people in general. So, I got to digging and recalled an article I posted three years ago titled, “The ungrateful American”. The art...
trialsJune 3, 2022
Count It All Joy: Finding Purpose in Trials
Aight, look here…we all know people who are going through a rough season in their life. Heck, you may be too.While I certainly feel empathy, I can’t help but reflect on the fact the If you live long enough in this world, you will inevitably go through some kind of suffering. But as Christians, yo...
gods-disciplineJune 1, 2022
Infinite Possibilities: God Makes Beauty from Ashes
Listen, I’ve been rambling on for the past week about our bad habits and how God can remove them from us and restore us. So check this out;“Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I...
forgivenessMay 16, 2022
The Great Restorer: Jesus' Command to Forgive
You ever think about how powerful Jesus is and His command for us forgive, as God has, those who have hurt us? I mean think about this, with that one selfless action, He becomes the great restorer. Pretty awesome I think. “"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you...
humilityMay 13, 2022
True Humility: The Secret of Biblical Heroes
This past week has 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 thing that defined “who” I was......
truthMay 9, 2022
Truth vs Lies: Satan's Native Language
Why do people tell lies? We live in a world full of them. Well, that’s easy. Because lying might enable guilty people to escape responsibility and consequences for their misdeeds. Because lying might preserve the illusion of their innocence. Because lying helps the sinner avoid having to face up...
waiting-on-godApril 7, 2022
Wait for the Lord - His Timing is Perfect
How are we doing waiting on God’s Plan for us? I ask because I’ve been a bit “all over the place” lately waiting to start treatments again…“Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!”Psalms 27:14 You know, when we go for the instant gratification, we give up...
humilityApril 1, 2022
He Must Become Greater, I Must Become Less
“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...
graceMarch 31, 2022
Working Hard Because We Got 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...
humilityMarch 22, 2022
True Humility: Thinking of Yourself Less
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...
power-of-wordsMarch 17, 2022
The Power of Life and Death in Your Tongue
“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…What is coming out of our mouths? The words that come out of our mouth have the power to build up or destroy. We who are created in His imag...
forgivenessFebruary 28, 2022
Jesus the Great Restorer: The Power of Reconciliation
You ever think about how powerful Jesus is and His command for us forgive, as God has, those who have hurt us? I mean think about this, with that one selfless action, He becomes the great restorer. Pretty awesome I think. “"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you...
humilityFebruary 7, 2022
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...
prideJanuary 27, 2022
Pride vs Faith: Who's Really Driving Your Life?
I had a great conversation with one of my friends 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 tells us that we can do what want and we are enamored with ourse...
humilityDecember 13, 2021
Battling the Big Three: Pride, Lust, and Entitlement
“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.”Philippians 2:3 ESVSo 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...
perseveranceDecember 9, 2021
How Endurance Builds Christ-Like 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...
wise-speechNovember 18, 2021
When Silence Speaks Wisdom
I got to thinking over the last week 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 th...