Anavah

No, O people, the Lord has told you what is good,
and this is what he requires of you:
to do what is right, to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with your God.

-Micah 6:8

Walk humbly with your God. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? Not so much. The ruler of this world has done a bang up job of complicating things. The enemy in his scheming has convinced much of society that the world revolves around us and that narcissism is normal. That may be normal to the human condition in our fallen state, but, thankfully this isn’t true of our redemptive state of living.

The Hebrew word for humility is Anavah. This word in its origin can be defined as “knowing and being comfortable with where stand before God.” When we know where we stand before the LORD, we gain access to the freedom of where we stand before man.

To be humble then, is to be aware of who we are before God. When we know who we are before God, we can find peace in where we are with man.

Humility frees us to walk in an anointed awareness before the LORD and to allow that awareness to overflow into all the areas of our life. Life and life abundantly can’t be found without the liberation of humility in our relationship with Christ. May I seek this walk carefully and intently.