Spiritual Spark 🔥

"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you" (1 Pet 5:6-7).

Peter gives us two important exhortations: (1) humbling ourselves before the mighty God; (2) Casting all our anxieties on God. The second exhortation seems very good to us. It is good to get rid of all our anxieties and throw them on God. But the first exhortation seems quite difficult to us. We don't want to humble ourselves.

We want to be managers; we want to have all the situations under our control. We don't want to bend down before anyone and give control of our lives to anyone, not even to God.

Why do we don't want to humble ourselves? Because we are very impatient. We want things to happen according to our time and our plan. St. Peter says, God will exalt you "in due time". God's time is different. We need to trust God; humble ourselves; stop worrying; throw our anxieties on God; and he will deliver us in "due time".

Good day and God bless us all! 🙏🏼🛐