How many times have you eaten humble pie? How did that work for you?
In other words, did you learn something about yourself? Or did you chalk it up to saying it wasn’t your fault?
Let me clue you on something that will cultivate your heart and mind. It’s one thing to live a life of pride and prejudice, never really changing your core values. It’s an entirely different thing for the light to come on and make the necessary changes, as He prunes.
There’s something to be said about receiving an invitation to eat humble pie. In doing so, it’s a lesson for the hour and one for the books that we’ll all revisit. Which will ultimately cause us to be a better version of ourselves.
That said, no one truly wants to eat humble pie. All too often it’s a necessity for us all to partake of humble pie, in order to gracefully crossover into the volumes of change. It’s like a rite of passage before graduation or promotion. Change is inevitable to reach your next step. If there’s no change, there’s no humble pie, and therefore, you remain in the corridors of sin consciousness.
“For a just man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked shall fall into evil.”
— Proverbs 24: 16
As time progresses, the humble pie is revisited in future endeavors, where the soil is matured. If you’re brainstorming as to how one can eat humble pie, there are things to keep in mind and one thing to hold near and dear to your heart. God exalts those He humbles.
We often overlook those who are humble or the least of these. As though they don’t even measure up. That’s the beauty surrounding those who aren’t seen.
God tends to pick from the overlooked, the least of these, or humbled. He specializes in cleaning us up and putting us on display. Then the King will say:
“I’m telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me — you did it to me.”
— Matthew 25: 40
In some cases they are so low, they’re not seen. God’s specialty is to use the least of these. I know this is an unconventional method. The unlikeliest people to do his bidding.
He is the only wise God, to use the very ones that many overlook. There isn’t a pattern where God chooses whom He shows mercy to. He is Sovereign.
He used Moses, he had a speech impediment. He used Noah and he was the town drunk. He used Saul, and he persecuted and killed Christians and transformed him into Paul and used him mightily.
He used Ruth, a Moabite, and her seed carried on the lineage of Jesus. He used Jacqueline. She was divorced and lost her youngest son and didn't believe she would carry on.
But He, restored her purposefully, recovering greater than she lost. But He gives greater grace. Therefore, he says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
(James 4: 6)
It is not a theory but a fact, God qualifies those He calls. When a man chooses, he/she has a bias or a slant, versus God’s choice is sure. He makes no mistakes, and He, is no respecter of people. We can’t fathom God’s ways or His thoughts as they far exceed ours.
We don’t know what comes after eating humble pie. It’s God’s strategy to pick from a pool of those who’ve eaten humble pie. That is truly God’s design, appointment, and approval, as He knows who can be trusted.
Apostle Jacqueline Hudson is a Waycross resident and author of the book “Never Say Never: A Memoir with a Twist.”
