"Humble yourselves therefore order the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time." 1 Peter 5:6 This is tantamount to a promise: if we will bow down, the LORD will lift us up. Humility leads to honor; submission is the way to exaltation. That same hand of God which presses us down is waiting to raise us up when we are prepared to bear the blessing. We stoop to conquer. Many cringe before men and yet miss the patronage they crave; but he that humbles himself under the hand of God shall not fail to be enriched, uplifted, sustained, and comforted by the ever-gracious One. It is a habit of Jehovah to cast down the proud and lift up the lowly. Yet there is a time for the LORD's working. We ought now to humble ourselves, even at this present moment; and we are bound to keep on doing so whether the LORD lays His afflicting hand upon us or not. When the LORD smites, it is our special duty to accept the chastisement with profound submission. But as for the LORD's exaltation of us, that can only come "in due time," and God is the best judge of that day and hour. Do we cry out impatiently for the blessing? Would we wish for untimely honor? What are we at? Surely we are not truly humbled, or we should wait with quiet submission. So let us do.

Another classic from the pen of C.H. Spurgeon that will challenge and inspire you on your daily path to Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon's Faith's Checkbook

Bow Down; Be Lifted Up

My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; for whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives. § Just as a father the son in whom he delights. § He bruises, but He binds up; He wounds, but His hands make whole. § Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. § I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. He does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. § He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.

Daily Light on the Daily Path or Daily Light is a Christian daily devotional scripture reading published by Bagster & Sons about 1875. It has been reprinted continually since then. It consists of brief groupings of scripture passages which speak to prominent Biblical themes—two themes (morning and evening) for each day of the year. It appends no commentary, but simply allows scripture to speak for itself.

Morning Daily Light

 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. 

Now see that I, even I, am He, and there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; nor is there any who can deliver from My hand. § I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. § “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. I will allure her, will bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfort to her. § As a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you. § Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. § Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

 Whom the Lord loves He corrects. 

Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord; though they join forces, none will go unpunished. O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand. Do not be furious, O Lord, nor remember iniquity forever; indeed, please look—we all are Your people! § You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained bull; restore me, and I will return, for You are the Lord my God. Surely, after my turning, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck myself on the thigh; I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth. § It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth. Affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble spring from the ground; yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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

Thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” § The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart—these, O God, You will not despise. § Though the Lord is on high, yet He regards the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar. § Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. § God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Therefore submit to God. You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of my trouble I will call upon You, for You will answer me.

 From the first day that you set your heart to understand,and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. 

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. We have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word … It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. § Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.

Evening Daily Light

 It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth. 

They had disputed among themselves who would be the greatest. And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.” § Be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who … made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men … Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow. Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever.

 One star differs from another star in glory. 

<blockquote>
The God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect (mature), establish, strengthen, settle you" (<a id="verse_1632880419365612" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/10">1 Pet. 5:10</a>).
</blockquote>At first, the old nature hides from us. Then, we try to hide from it. But when we begin to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus, we are able to face up to the awful facts concerning the old man and his condemnation at the Cross. As the Holy Spirit reveals the old man (<a id="verse_1632880419109734" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Colossians/3/9">Col. 3:9</a>), we count upon death; as He reveals the new man (<a id="verse_1632880419461360" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Colossians/3/10">Col. 3:10</a>), we count upon life (<a id="verse_1632880419189851" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Romans/6/11">Rom. 6:11</a>)."The believer, at the opening of his course, never knows his own heart; indeed, he could not bear the full knowledge of it; he would be overwhelmed thereby. The Lord leads us not by the way of the Philistines lest we should see war, and so be plunged into despair. But He graciously leads us by a circuitous route, in order that our apprehension of His grace may keep pace with our growing self-knowledge." -C.H.M."It was not for nothing that God let Satan loose upon His dear servant, Job. God loved Job with a perfect love; a love that could take account of everything, and, looking below the surface, could see the deep moral roots in the heart of His servant - roots which Job had never seen, and, therefore, never judged. What a mercy to have to do with such a God! to be in the hands of One who will spare no pains in order to subdue everything in us which is contrary to Himself, and to bring out in us His own blessed image!""Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you" (<a id="verse_1632880419449679" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/6">1 Pet. 5:6</a>; <a id="verse_1632880419580930897" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/7">7</a>).

A 365 day devotional that will help you in your Christian growth and walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.  This devotional is a collection of quotes from some of the best authors in the realm of Christian growth that has been organized by Miles J Stanford.  This devotional study is divided into 12 sections each containing 31 daily portions.

None but the Hungry Heart

 Grace Crown 

<blockquote>
God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction" (<a id="verse_1632880623645314" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Genesis/41/52">Gen. 41:52</a>).
</blockquote>To share what we have may minister temporarily to the physical; but to minister to the spiritual in an eternal way we must share what we are, and that calls for growth in the Lord Jesus Christ."We can only comfort others with the comfort wherewith we ourselves have been comforted of God. Others can only really be helped by what has been the power of life in the would-be helper."Information, by itself, however correct and orthodox, however strongly held in conviction and passed on in passion, will lack an essential and indispensable quality or value for spiritual constitution."Hence it has ever been God's way to raise up a vessel, personal or corporate, in which His message has been wrought by fiery ordeal. The messenger must not only have the message in him, but he must be in the message: not only in mind and feeling, but in experience and being." -T. A-S."We really can only come into the reality of things by being pressed out of measure' (<a id="verse_1632880623863439" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/2-Corinthians/1/8">2 Cor. 1:8</a>). So the Lord has to take much time to make our spiritual history. When at length our eyes are open, we cry, O, why did I not see it before!' But everything else had to prove insufficient before we could really be shown, and that takes time.""Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time" (<a id="verse_1632880623548660" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/6">1 Pet 5:6</a>).

 Personification 

<blockquote>
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time" (<a id="verse_1632877273288678" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/6">1 Pet. 5:6</a>).
</blockquote>The Blesser sends trials because the trials are blessings. Most covet the "blessing" of having the trial removed."I find the brightest summer is when the winter has been longest and most severe. The wheat, the best grain, passes a winter in the soil. The bud, the blossom, or fruit, most fragrant of Christ, is the one which nobody knows what it cost me but Himself; and where one had hardly noticed it; like the beautiful wild flowers in the hedgerow, contending with bushes and briars, to shed their fragrance on the unthankful or unthinking traveller going by.""I think we are sometimes ready to say to the Lord - Could you not have taught me without subjecting me to so much sorrow and humiliation? The answer I have had is, You could not be effectually taught any other way. The Lord knows the nature of the obstacle in me which He has to overcome: a less efficient hand might think that it could be dealt with in some other way."A weakness be it bodily or otherwise, is sometimes allowed to continue in order that there may be dependence, and when there is dependence, the weakness becomes a gain; the grit - the trying thing - is superseded by a pearl of great price." -J.B.S."The God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect [mature], establish, strengthen, settle you" (<a id="verse_1632877273174681" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/10">1 Pet. 5:10</a>).

 Treasured Trials 

<blockquote>
Thou art my God. My times are in Thy hand " (<a id="verse_1632877286732005" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Psalm/31/14">Ps. 31:14</a>; <a id="verse_1632877286469227012" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Psalm/31/15">15</a>).
</blockquote>The environment necessary for one's growth, and the enablement necessary for one's service, are both in the hands of one's Creator. "So He fed them according to the integrity of His heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of His hands" (<a id="verse_1632877286943103" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Psalm/78/72">Ps. 78:72</a>)."What we have all to do is to walk closely and quietly with the Lord Jesus, and the blessing will come when He has established His work. There is a sifting government of God as well as a perfect redemption, and He is full of patience. His purpose is glory; His ways are the wilderness.""There are various ways in which as saints we are tried, but through all circumstances God is threading our way, occupying Himself with us, our particular characters, etc., to instruct and develop us. What we want is to realize that our Father loves us so much that He has taken such pains to make us partakers of His holiness' (<a id="verse_1632877286676012" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Hebrews/12/10">Heb. 12:10</a>). We are apt not to believe the activity of His love. Some trouble comes on us; our Father has been watching us individually for weeks, months, years; watching us to bring this trouble which He sees is needed." -H.H.S."How varied are the ways in which our Father bringeth down and lifteth up! We have to learn the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ in the bright day as well as in the sorrowful day. If He is everything to me in my brightest day there is no fear but He will be my chief joy in the day of sorrow.""Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time" (<a id="verse_1632877286793660" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/6">1 Pet. 5:6</a>).

 Hand Crafted 

<blockquote>My son, do not think lightly of the Lord's discipline, and do not faint when he corrects you" (<a id="verse_1632877463944117" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Hebrews/12/6">Heb. 12:6</a>, Wey.).</blockquote>Most of us sought to avoid our natural father's discipline, when he sought to administer it. And most of us seek to avoid our heavenly Father's discipline, until we finally learn that "He does it for our certain good, in order that we may become sharers in His own holy character" (<a id="verse_1632877463666268" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Hebrews/12/10">Heb. 12:10</a>, Wey.)."There is an idea that often troubles people, namely, that God always wants to bring us down when He chastens us. When He corrects a man it is not that He may bring him down, but that He may lift him up. He says, Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time' (<a id="verse_1632877463518720" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/6">1 Peter 5:6</a>). I discipline my child in order that I may exalt him morally.""Our Father purges us on the principle of we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake.' In service you are sure to find some kind of pressure on you. "It may be on your body, and often is; or it may be persecution; but you will hardly ever have a fruitful field of service before you, unless you are crippled for it. He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.'""We come to feel our need, and often attempt independently to supply it by our own means; the Lord must confound us in the attempt; but having done so, He leads in dependence to find and acquire an inconceivably greater answer to our wishes than even that which we prescribed for ourselves. The prodigal only sought sustenance' from the citizen in the far country,' but back in his father's house he found not bread merely, but abounding welcome and a fatted calf.""For those whom the Lord loves he disciplines: and he scourges every son whom he acknowledges" (<a id="verse_1632877463489197" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Hebrews/12/6">Heb. 12:6</a>, Wey.).

 He Dares To Discipline! 

<blockquote>God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble" (<a id="verse_1632877731322648" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/5">1 Pet. 5:5</a>).</blockquote>Humility is the hallmark of the servant resting in, and sent from, the Father's presence."There is a sense in which God's true servant is always a defeated man. The one who drives on with a sense of his own importance, who is unwilling to appreciate the worthlessness of his own best efforts and is always seeking to justify himself - that one will not be meek, and so will lack the essential enablement by which God's work must be accomplished. Our brokenness must not be feigned; we must not be content with the mere language and appearance of humility. We, too, must be as conscious of Divine mercy in our being recovered for God's service as we are of the original mercy which drew us from the dark waters of death." -H.F."Humility is quietness of heart. It is to have no trouble. It is never to be fretted or irritated or disappointed. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have my blessed home in the Lord Jesus, where I can go in and shut the door and be with my Father in secret, and be at peace when all outside is trouble." -A.M."The Father may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.""Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time" (<a id="verse_1632877731919281" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/6">1 Pet. 5:6</a>).

 Unfeigned Humility 

<blockquote>God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble" (<a id="verse_1632877906396327" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/5">1 Pet. 5:5</a>).</blockquote>Resting in His glory there will manifest His humility in us here."Our hearts have such a tendency to turn back to legalism, and to think it humility. The only real humbleness and strength and blessing is to forget ourselves in the presence and blessedness of the Father. We may be brought thither by a humbling process but it is not in merely thinking evil of the old man that we are truly humble; we have the privilege of forgetting ourselves in the love of our Father." -J.N.D."It is as knowing the Lord Jesus to be precious to our souls, with our eyes and hearts being occupied with Him, that we will be effectually kept from being taken up with the vanity and sin around. And this too will be our strength against the sin and corruption within. Whatever I see in myself that is not in Him, is sin. It is not in thinking upon my own sins that will humble me, but thinking of the Lord Jesus and dwelling upon the excellencies in Him."It is well to be done with ourselves and to be taken up with the Lord Jesus. We are entitled to forget ourselves - we are entitled to confess and forget our sins - we are entitled to forget all but the Lord Jesus. It is by looking unto Him that we can give up anything, and can walk as obedient children." -J.N.D."Many think that talking badly of ourselves is the ideal of humility; whereas the simplest and more real humility is to feel unaffectedly that we are too bad to be worth talking about. Only One is worthy of all our thoughts and words and ways, even the Lord Jesus Christ." -W.K."Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time" (<a id="verse_1632877906167305" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/6">1 Pet. 5:6</a>).

 Remember To Forget 

<blockquote>
Humble yourselves. . . under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time" (<a id="verse_1632878158206989" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/6">1 Pet. 5:6</a>).
</blockquote>Face it! Trials and suffering are the heart of growth."It is the Cross of the Lord Jesus that makes what is naturally bitter sweet to us. It is the fellowship of His sufferings'; and the knowledge of suffering with Him, what can it not sweeten? We are sharing His experience who gives us therein to realize that wonderful path in which divine love led Him for our sakes. We have the reality of His sympathy with us. We have fellowship with Himself in such a way as we could not else enjoy, for nothing brings hearts together like sharing a common lot of toil and sorrow." -F.W.G."Faith is rooted in the Father's great Facts. Affliction, adversities, sufferings, sorrows, temptations, trials, doubts, disappointments roll in upon us. How can we go on in peace and patience with such things in our life? Are they not enough to overwhelm us? No, not if faith spreads itself out over them and sends its roots down into the rich soil of our Father's great eternal Facts." -R.P."May you retire into the secret of your heart and wait on the Father, and think that His heart is so relieved of everything about you, that He sees you according to the Son at His right hand. Amidst all the confusion and contrariety of this scene I know how my Father feels about me." -J.B.S."If I am abiding in my risen Lord, it will show itself. I shall not be afraid of changes around me. I shall live not in apathy and listlessness, but in the exercise of lively affections and energies toward my Lord. Another great evidence of my abiding in Him, is quietness. I have my portion in Him above, and I walk on." -J.N.D."Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you" (<a id="verse_1632878158152079" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/7">1 Pet 5:7</a>).

 Triumphant Trials 

<blockquote>
The God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered awhile, make you mature, establish, strengthen, settle you" (<a id="verse_1632878207556248" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/10">1 Pet. 5:10</a>).
</blockquote>The type of plow employed has much to do with the resultant harvest. The primitive stick-plow places quite a limitation upon what will be harvested - if anything. But if the Husbandman's plow is cutting deep into our lives, we can expect a rich harvest. As Samuel Rutherford said, "Why should I start at the plow of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? He purposeth a crop!""Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? Doth he continually open and harrow his ground?' (<a id="verse_1632878207949965" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Isaiah/28/24">Isa. 28:24</a>). No, of course not! It is a job that has got to be done - the breaking up, the turning over, the exposing to the elements, the harrowing. The Lord is speaking to His faithful people who are feeling that they are under the plow; furrows are being cut deep into their souls; they are being turned up and turned over, laid bare, exposed, broken, harrowed. The Father says, even to faithful people, This is necessary, we are looking ahead to a harvest, to real values; this is an essential aspect of the work. But. . . take comfort - this is not going on forever.'""No matter what we may encounter in this life, we who belong to the Lord Jesus have this definite knowledge - our Father will use it all in love as an instrument in the carrying out of the glorious purpose to which He has destined us. If that purpose is to be wrought by delivering us from a trial, He will do so. But if it is to be accomplished by means of the trial, He, in His perfect love, will not free us from it but strengthen us to go through it and be victorious over it." -A.M."Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time" (<a id="verse_1632878207629960" href="https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/1-Peter/5/6">1 Pet. 5:6</a>).

 Harvest Conditions 

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