Sure Success
Sure Success
I was reading the text 1 Peter 5:6, wherein it instructs the believer to humble themselves under the hand of God. In this text it is also revealed that in doing the aforementioned that God will exalt the believer in due time. As I read and then meditated on this text it caused me to think of the process that is involved in divine exaltation or divine success. It must be grasped that there can be no divine exalting until there is a deliberate self subjugation by the one desirous of being exalted. This humbling in the text involves a submitting to the way of God which is found exclusively in the word of God. This is important because it is not found in human emotions, fleshly desires but in the Holy Word that gives life instructions. Therefore tantamount to obtaining divine success is the submission to God’s will. I heard one writer says that it means that we understand that we stoop to conquer. This is contradicting to today’s beliefs as well as practices. For in today’s society we view the flexing of military might, the bombarding of ideologies over the ideas of others, as well as the notion of you are either with the aforementioned or you are not a patriot. My dear readers do not subject yourself to this militant and malicious way of existence. God offers to us a different way of living and it is His way of living.
Enveloped in this Petrine text are a promise of exalting and a projection of such time as well. It is an assurance that if the person would submit themselves to God’s will then what is promise is then produced in that person’s life. Preparation to receive the blessing of being exalted by God is thusly nestled in the practice of submission and waiting on God. This, “due season,” as mentioned in the text, is akin to the cliché-ic statement about God’s arrival in our needs/situations, wherein it is decreed, and “He may not come when you want Him to come but He is always on time.” “Due season,” appropriates the timeliness of the exalting. Please note that it is not declaring ‘a’ season. For if this was done then it would attach the exalting to a particular period in time. There are dangers in the attaching the ‘exalting’ to a particular point and then period in time. One of such would promote a looking to a definitive point in which ‘exalting’ will happen. Another of such would relegate the ‘exalting’ to a point that once it has occurred becomes a moment in the past. To speak of the aforementioned, it would cause a half-hearted effort only doing enough to make it to the point of ‘exaltation,’ with no lasting godly developed lifestyle. The latter would suggest that the ‘exalting,’ has a life occurrence of once-in-a-lifetime. But the author eliminates these as non-plausible considerations when he says, “due season.” Suggestively enveloped here is that ‘exaltation’ comes at the right time, Praise God. That means that all dynamics (to include external and internal) are right. I would like to also suggest that there is not a limitation on the exalting that is done. Therefore, throughout life ‘due season’ will appear as determined by God, Praise His name. Humbling oneself will cause you to have humility and an accurate estimation of self. Yet, humbling oneself under the hand of God requires total abandonment of selfishness and total reliance on Him. Exaltation and sure success is available the cost is humbling oneself under the hand of God.
