Tuesday: True Humility
The Gospel for Every Day
Each day, we slow down to align our hearts with God’s Rhythms of Grace.
This series, we examine the portrait of the Extraordinarily Ordinary Christian Life.
This week, we meditate on the theme of True Humility throughout Scripture.
Today’s Scripture
The Psalmist leads us in marveling at God. When we let the amazement of all God has done and the fact that he would keep us in mind really sink in, we’re released from self-importance to the freedom of humility in Christ.
Reading slowly, let God convict you by his truth and overwhelm you by his grace in Christ.
Psalm 8
1 To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.
O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly being
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Gospel Meditation
Prayerfully meditate on the Scripture you just read using the rhythm Look Up, Look In, Look Out:
Look Up: What does this reveal about God?
Look In: What does this reveal about me?
Look Out: Where is Christ leading me today?
Closing Prayer
Inspired by John 13:3-17
Jesus, my Lord and Teacher,
You are worthy of all honor, yet you chose to humbly wash the feet of those you love.
This new day, I receive your washing from where I have walked.
Free me up to follow your example, humbling myself for the good of others and the glory of your name,
Amen
