Today's Verse: 1 Peter 5:6 (NIV)--- Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. According to the Bible Readers' Companion, we can only grow in knowledge of God, if we humble ourselves and remain dependent upon him.

Today's Comments: Submission, or humbling oneself, means that, instead of thinking of ourselves, first, we think of God, first, others, second, and then ourselves, last. And, we become submissive to others by being submissive to God. We cannot have a relationship with God, when we are guided by our own pride and arrogance. Once we submit to Him, then He will lift us up, when we are ready. Through His grace, we will be given the ability to do the good works that will glorify Him. It is then that we can find peace in Him and with ourselves.