Got a Mantle of Humility? (Acts 3-4)

A mantle is a loose sleeveless cloak or cape or something that covers, envelope, or conceals. Why a mantle? It is a covering for all of our Holy Successes that came from His Hands that had rescued you from falling. But when we get a mantle off, we may become blind to our prideful nature by seeing the glory in us, then His glory in us will start to dim. When it does, we started to realize that we are blinded by our pride, and it is when we might start to beg for a mantle again and for His glory to resume in us. It's not about us, but it is all about Him!

It is one of our greatest temptation! It is easy for us to be prideful when we forgot what He had done for us and to tell the people about how God had carried us into this Holy Successes! I seriously need to keep a mantle like how Peter and John kept theirs when they walked around to heal a lame man, got into prision after 5,000 more were saved, and how the people saw their boldness!

When they recognized that the people are staring at them walking with the lame, they spoke, "Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this or why do you stare at us, as through by our own power or piety we have made him walk? The God of Abraham, the God of Issac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus"

When the rulers, elders, and scribes gathered together to ask them in prision, "By what power or by what name did you do this?" Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and told them that it is, "by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead- by him this man is standing before you well." Then the rulers, elders, and scribes 'saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.'

Don't ever forget that it is all about Jesus Christ who saves us! Jesus is the Anointed One who brought us out of bondages. Let us all remember to glorify Him daily!