daily devotional for may 11th today's scripture reading will be luke 14
verse 11 for whoever exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted
you know god resists the proud but he exalts the humble and i just want to uh share a couple things
that what i was looking at today uh in scripture and even in today's
society um several different people and one is uh shebna from isaiah 22.
you know he was a loyal actually a royal servant of king hezekiah but he began you know scheming
building things for himself and he planned on being the man for the job and the lord sent isaiah
to talk to shebna and tell him you know the lord is removing you and replacing you with eliakim and
actually eliakim is the one who became the father of the remnant and received the keys of david
another one is elijah in first kings 19. you know he he had just defeated the 400 prophets
of baal and then he ran from uh jezebel and hidden a cave and he comes out and he tells god
not once but twice he said only i am left okay he was he thinks he's the only one
that the only prophet that god had left and that just wasn't true and you know
god told him then he said go and anoint elisha in your place so he removed him and in modern times i
i remember the day when president reagan that assassination attempt took place back in 1981
alexander hague he was secretary of state at the time and he was like i'm the man for the
job he said i'm in control it's like he really exalted himself that day he was planning on
just being the man in charge of everything if ronald reagan died well you know what
he only served as secretary of state like one more year and he resigned and we didn't really
hear too much it seemed like everything he tried to do after that failed so now if you look at
ones who were exalted ultimately jesus is the ultimate one who was uh he of course he was a
servant he became servant to his disciples but he was exalted high above everyone else
queen esther she humbled herself and went to the king whether it cost her her life or not
she went stood before the king joshua he was a humble servant to uh moses david he was just
a shepherd boy but he remained in a place of humility and god exalted him as king and think
about abigail she could have um she intervened on behalf of her husband because her husband
you know he just was a kind of a nasty old man and david would have killed him but she really
intervened and went to david she fed him and and said you know if you kill him then what's
that going to look like for you you know and you're going to be king so you know what as that
played out she became his second wife and then of course in modern day i think of mother teresa
you know she was just a humble servant loved loved the unlovely she remained humble
and god definitely exalted her now maybe she didn't have riches like we would think
somebody would should have you know but she i'll bet you she has more crowns than anybody in heaven
because she did such a mighty work on the earth so that's all i have to say about that today
you know god does resist the proud but he exalts the humble and in his time okay till next time