1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time.
My only personal experience with wrestling was in high school gym class, a time in my life when I was far more concerned with humiliation than humility. Let alone learning or training to be humble. It was many years before I recognized and accepted the difference between humiliation and humility. That’s difficult to acknowledge for someone who made his living as a writer and attests to my ego. That I’ve made any change hopefully says I’ve learned something about being humble, or just gotten older.
But in today’s text Peter exhorts us to humble ourselves before God “so that he may exalt you in due time.” While I don’t have any expectation of being exalted, I’ve come to know that I must show the Lord my God deference and respect—greater deference and respect than I’d show a worthy opponent in the wrestling ring had I been a better athlete.
Tom Germuska
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