Humility: The song of Asaph.

Where you are right now is an exalted position.

This stage of your life now, this very moment as a Christian.

But this poison called the pride of life is a serious thing.

Satan has mastered this strategy.

He injects it in our thoughts. Pride is a sweet and bitter feeling the enemy uses to keep us out of the promises of God.

He will say things like this:

You have been doing this for years, nobody cares. You have been working here, toiling for decades but nobody appreciates you.

You've been serving God for years yet you have nothing to show for it.

Your mates are now successful but look where you are now.

You are a beautiful woman, what are you doing with him?

He will then turn you against others with this kind of saying:

See how they use up your time, look at how they take advantage of your kindness and your generosity.

Look at how they show discomfort in your own needs.

Then gives you his alternative:

But look what is over here, look what you can get over there. Here's someone better, here is a suitable place.

This will sound, look and feel sweet in the beginning but devastating in the end.

Your thinking becomes your attitude, then decision, then action, then habit, then character.

All this to target and to destroy your character.

Wherever you are now, you are at an exalted place.

At your job, home, church, at your ministry, or school.

J.R. Miller once wrote: "The only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be buried, is the character of a man…What a man is, survives him. It can never be buried."

The enemy wants to destroy your character.

But want to destroy it by offering you false hope. You will be like gods.

Asaph's character was almost destroyed.

But when he turn to God, his perspective changed.