December 12.
Get Off Your High Horse

1 Peter 5:6

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.

This text speaks of the day or season of time that you as a believer must surfer through in order for God to perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. Satan uses his best techniques during this period of time. It is also a time when burdens seems to be at their worst. People are on edge. We wet pillows with midnight tears. It seems as if money gets short and bills get longer. Phony friends seem to be plenteous. It is a time when everything seems to go wrong. You begin having conversations in your bedroom and in your car when no one is there except you. You search bookshelves to find the right book to read. You rent movies trying to find a solution to your problem. You may find yourself doing stuff that’s not becoming to you.

There is something going on in the inside that you can’t seem to explain. The people that you discuss it with know when you start talking they don’t understand. There are others you want to tell, but you don’t want them to know that you’ve sunk that low. So you start asking yourself, “How do I handle this kind of dilemma and keep going on?

There is an answer. There’s a word that’s tucked away in this book called Peter that will help us have a brighter future. You may want your problems to stay under cover. You don’t want anybody else to know that you’re going through what you’re going through. But one thing you will have to do is start being honest with yourself. And then secondly, you’ll need to be honest with God, because the only way God can help you is by you admitting your pride. Most of us try to handle our own dilemma. But if you could handle it, you wouldn’t be in the shape you’re in. We need the help and the assistance of others and especially the God that woke us up. The first instruction is for us to be humble. Simply put, you need to come off of your high horse.