Does a humble heart get God’s attention? When we allow
pride to enter our lives, that’s a doorway to disaster in having a
relationship with God, but when we go humbly to God, that’s
when He helps and guides us.

My husband and I recently went to the Sight and Sound
Theater in Lancaster to see the story of David. I have al-
ways loved this story, and it has helped me through some very
challenging times in my life. Watching it come to life was
absolutely amazing.

Putting it together with today’s Scripture, we basically are
talking about Pride vs Humility. For instance, we all know
that David was a man after God’s own heart, but David was
also very human and went down the wrong path, just like we
all have done. He slept with a friend’s wife, got her pregnant,
and then killed the man so he wouldn’t find out what he had
done. For a year, David took no responsibility for his actions
until God sent Nathan to tell him that God knew everything he
had done. God wasn’t happy about what David did, but he still
loved him and believed he was the right man to be king of his
people. Saul was not like David in one way. He let his heart be
affected by human pride. Saul wanted things his way and
blamed God for leaving him instead of humbling himself be-
fore God and asking for his forgiveness. How many of us are
like that? Samuel said in 1 Samuel 16:7…the Lord does not
see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but
the Lord looks at the heart.” God knew David’s heart as He
knows yours.

Today is a fast-paced world, and we all want to have a
front seat at the table of life. We want to be rewarded for
the things we do, but we have to remember being humble isn’t
a weakness. Being humble doesn’t mean we think less of our-
selves or have to put ourselves down; it means we don’t have
to think of ourselves at all. Jesus was trying to get everyone to
understand that taking the seat that was the least actually
means we get a seat of honor with God. You can’t go by this
world’s standards to get you there. You have to go by God’s
standards.

It might do us good to look a little closer at David’s story
and how he started walking again with God because he
humbled himself. This means if David can do it, we can do
it too, and it starts by going down on our knees and humbling
ourselves, repenting, and asking God to come into our lives.
It helps us to read the Word of God every day. Then we
learn Scriptures like what Paul wrote in Philippians 2:3-8 Do
nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in hu-
mility, value others above yourselves, not looking to your own
interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your
relationships with one another, have the same mindset as
Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature, God, did not consider
equality with God something to be used to His own advantage;
rather, He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a
servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in
appearance as a man, He humbled himself by becoming obedi-
ent to death— even death on a cross!

Jesus always considered himself a servant of God, and so
did David and also Paul, who is considered one of the
greatest apostles who ever lived. So, if we apply their serv-
ant perspective to our own lives, where do you think God will
lead us?

~~Barb Novad