To humble yourself before God means you acknowledge you can’t do or think anything without God’s help. Be obedient and God will take care of the recognition.
Humbling ourselves means turning over each area of our life to God as it comes. God takes all that we are and weaves into us His own will and purposes. God’s timing in revealing His will for you is perfect.
Let humility and dependence on God be the only way you can succeed at life. God resists those that don’t need Him and gives grace and help to those who are humble. Real humility involves turning over every area to God.
You cannot succeed in life with partial surrender to Christ. Your example will be noticed by others if you are being changed by God’s Word in your life.
Our gifts and talents have been given to us by God. Give God all your abilities and where you’re weakest for God to use. How to meditate on God’s word: think it over, memorize it.
Training your mind involves, reading, persuading others, doctrine: what you really believe. Exhortation means how we communicate to others. Your beliefs effect your behavior.
Being an example of God’s love chooses Christ’s love to control us rather than bitterness. He cares about us enough to give us His love that will cause us to be a victor over the painful circumstances of life.
Elders are to preach God’s word and they are to be an example in what they say or don’t say. Be an example by the way you live out your life. We can only show God’s love to others by spending time in God’s presence.
The ‘keeping of their souls’ involves committing the deep down of you to the Lord’s control. The details of life line up when your heart is right. Living out the day to day things is how God works out his eternal plan for you.