Humility attracts God’s attention. In Isaiah 66. 2, we read the following words of the Lord:
The man I am going to look at is this: the one who is afflicted and killed in spirit and who trembles at my word.
- This profound passage leads us to a totally different motivation and purpose in terms of humility.
- Motivation and a goal that we will never find in the pages of a business manual.
- In this passage we find motivation and purpose based on the impressive fact that humility attracts the eyes of our Sovereign God.
If we understand the circumstances in which this passage was written, we will find an even richer meaning. Here God addresses the Israelites, a people with a unique identity. Did God choose from all the nations of the earth that owned both the temple and the earth?Torá, the law of God, but they did not tremble before the word of God. In a sense, they had everything in their favor except the most important thing. They were not humble before God.
Then, in this passage, God, in his mercy, diverts the Israelites’ attention from the proud assumption of being privileged as God’s chosen ones and his concern for the ornaments of religion, things that do not attract his active and elegant gaze. but humility does.
God’s eyes are a theme throughout the scriptures. See, for example, the words of 2 Chronicles 16:9: “For, as for the Lord, your eyes walk the earth, to show you strong to those whose heart is entirely theirs. “Obviously, God has no physical eyes; “God is spirit?(John 4. 24). He doesn’t need physical eyes because he’s omniscient. Nothing escapes your attention. He’s aware of all things.
However, although he knows everything, he is looking for something in particular, something that acts as a magnet to capture his attention and invites him to actively engage with us. God is resolutely attracted to humility. Does a humble person attract God’s attention and, in that sense, also mean attracting his grace?Your undeserved goodness. Think about it: there is one thing you can do to attract more of God’s graceful, undeserved, and supernatural strength and help!
What a promise! Once again, pay attention to this well-known passage: “God?Does it give grace to the humble?” (James 4. 6). Contrary to what some believe, God does not help those who help themselves, but those who humble themselves.
It’s the promise of humility. God is, personally and providentially, the defender of the humble. And the grace he bestows upon the humble is of indescribable value. Jonathan Edwards wrote: “The pleasures of humility are the most refined, intimate and exquisite pleasures in the world. “The purpose of this book is to help you receive and experience these excellent pleasures.