As I prepare for a devo I need to present to my youth group tomorrow, I asked for prayer from the youth's leadership team (which I am also a part of). My peers said they would pray for me, which was a huge blessing. My youth pastor said the same, along with the phrase, "If you can kneel before God, you can stand before any man." This has me thinking: what if I can't even kneel before God?
So many times during my alotted "reverent prayer" time in the evenings, I so often brazenly rush into God's presence, and unleash all that has happened that day, my prayer requests, my praises, and doze off. This isn't humbling myself before my God. I don't even think I understand the extent of His glory and power; otherwise I would feel ashamed to be allowed to be a temple of His Spirit. And without this humility, it stands to reason that I am not kneeling in His presence, I'm just standing there. As if God was a tool to help me get closer to Him, rather than Him being the end goal for me to grow close to. I can't USE God, He's supposed to use me!
So, the quote. Is the inverse true also? If I can't kneel before God - recognizing His majesty and glory for what it is - how then will I have the strength to stand before men? See, I think this one is true because without the faith required to kneel before Jesus, I for sure won't have the faith to stand before men. Also, what about the contrapositive of the statement; that if I can't stand before men, I can't kneel before God - is that true too? This one, I don't think its true. It makes it sound as if MY strength would empower me to kneel in God's presence, and that is ABSOLUTELY not true!! I need GOD'S humility to help me BOTH stand before men AND kneel in His presence!
I dunno, these are just my thoughts. My youth pastor got me thinkin, and I wanted to share with yall... what do ya think?
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