1 Peter 5:6-7 Always be humble!

God requires us to be fair and just to all people. He requires us to forgive others their sins as He has forgiven ours. He expects us, above all, to walk with Him humbly knowing it is nothing to do with our righteousness and everything to do with His. Micah 6:8

1 Peter 5:6-7 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, 7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

God hears our prayers and sees our good works when they are done out of our love for Him. Holy Spirit will guide us into the way of peace that Father offers us in Jesus. As long as it is within our power we need to get along with each other. God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but that through Him the world could be saved (John 3:17).  Carla

Peter urges his audience to be humble while they wait for God to honor their faithfulness in His timing. This call to humility reinforces the repeated call in the letter to endure various kinds of suffering for their faith by placing their trust in God’s plan. Casting all your cares on Him is  likely drawing on Psalm 55:22, this line provides comfort to believers in the face of persecution and suffering. God not only will deliver believers from their troubles in the future, but He demonstrates His loving care in the present by hearing their prayers. Faithlife Study Bible

We need to place all our worries, anxieties, and problems over to  God in order to let Him handle them. When we love Him above all and love others as much as ourselves we can trust Him to do what we cannot. The NKJV Study Bible

Psalm 55:22 

Cast your burden on the LORD,

And He shall sustain you;

He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

Matthew 23:12 And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

Luke 14:11 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Matthew 6:25  “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 

Luke 18:14  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

"We live in times when polarization seems to be one of the words of the day, but it's not helping anybody," Pope Leo XIV said yesterday in an interview.

How can we sow love, and be an instrument of peace?

Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit."

And Simon Peter said, "Do we have to write this down? Are we going to be tested on this?"

Spillage begins when we give ourselves the permission to be at home in our own skin. We don’t wait until we have our act together.

There is power here. Now.

And from that place, we make a difference.

From that place we create and become sanctuary, a place of presence, renewal, empathy, inclusion and compassion.

From that place we are purveyors of charity, goodwill and mercy.

And the bottom line? “We are at our best when the strong do not exploit the weak.” (Jon Meacham)

When you sow love, every single seed makes a difference.

And when we sow love, it reenforces Dr. Martin Luther King’s reminder, “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

“My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. I’m giving you a new commandment so you’ll know where I am, and who I am: You must love one another.” (John 13:33–35, paraphrased by Richard Rohr) “Sabbath Moments”