Day Twenty-Seven: That she would delight in righteousness
“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” –Micah 6:8
Our daughters will be tempted to act like the culture that surrounds them, which is proud, selfish, and anything but humble towards God. Culture says, “serve yourself.” It likes kindness so long as it costs you and not them. The God of the Bible is increasingly mocked and and ridiculed and the temptation is to either walk away from God or compromise his Word and bring shame on his name. Yet, what is countercultural is the Christian’s loving humility when no reward of man will ever come.
Father, help my daughter to shine like a city on a hill. Let her soul flow with humility towards you, understanding her sin and brokenness, and that the only way to walk with you is through your Son Jesus Christ. Lord keep her from pride so that she may respond to a hostile world in the love and kindness of Christ. Make her soul delight in righteousness that justice may flow from her. Keep her humble towards you, God, so that in life she may glorify you and not bring shame upon your name. Lead my daughter not into temptation, but deliver her from evil. For in humility toward God, from which flow justice, love, and kindness, you are glorified! Glorify your name, O God!
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Nick lives and serves the Lord with his wife Amy and Son Gabriel in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He loves his Lord, his family, his church, and lives to proclaim the Gospel in whatever way he can.
