James 4:10 (ESV Strong's)
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Truth: Humility is the conduit by which grace it poured out in our lives.
In a couple of verses before the above verse James writes the following:
James 4:6 (ESV Strong's)
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
God is in the business of giving us His grace. God wants to pour His grace out upon us. What stops that dump-truck load of grace from happening is the pride in our hearts. When we think we are deserved something, owed something, earned something, we lose out on God's grace. God will "exalt" us when we find our place in the place of utter dependance upon Him ... that is humility. This is why we don't receive God's grace: We have to be in a place of utter dependance on Him. But, we often think we only need God in "extreme" circumstances. God becomes the "spare-tire-god" we pull out of the trunk when the tire goes completely flat. Before that we are masters of our own fate. God resists that type of thought and that approach to life and we lose out on grace. Grace is the supreme ointment from God. When we compare grace and mercy we typically say this: Mercy is God holding back what we Do deserve, and Grace is God giving us what we DON'T deserve. That is why our humility is so, so important in our lives. God only exalts those who first, in humility, rest solely on God's grace.
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