Transforming Our Foibles Through Daily Bible Reading and Humility

This is a word many probably have never heard. Merriam Webster defines foible as the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point. One may say, "So what, what does that have to do with me?" Another definition is a minor flaw or shortcoming in character or behavior, moral weakness; a failing; a weak point; a frailty.

A word that can align with foibles is humilities. We can be humble about some things and prideful about others. We can stand strong on something we are familiar with, but weaker on the things we are not familiar with. Absorbing what God's Word reveals requires humility, which allows learning. We listen more intently when we exercise humility. We also must receive with readiness and preparation to even listen to what His Word says because so many times, friends, we are wrong. We are frightfully wrong and are too stubborn, prideful, and sinful to take a moment to see that wrong.

"We all have the capacity to misread, misinterpret and misunderstand the Word of God—especially when we’re sure that we have something completely figured out.'

Jeremy Lallier

Foibles has to do with every soul who encounters God's Word. He and His Word are perfect. We most definitely are not and His Word educates and encourages us toward His perfection. Not that we achieve it, but that we continuously pursue it, through daily Bible reading.

Therefore, we must approach God's Word from a perspective of weakness, flaw or shortcoming in character or behavior, moral weakness, a failing, a weak point, and a frailty. This is because we are but He can strengthen and restrore because He is nothing of those things. God is the antithesis of foibles.

So approach His Word with readiness and preparation to receive it, humility to absorb it, and trust to believe and have faith in it. The result is becoming closer to and more like Him, His qualities, His desires, and His behaviors. This powerfully limits our foibles as He transforms us more and more in his likeness. 🙏

Take no account of man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils;

Isaiah 2:22,

For My hand made all these things,

So all these things came into being,” declares the LORD.

“But I will look to this one,

At one who is humble and contrite in spirit, and who trembles at My word.

Isaiah 66:2

When pride comes, then comes dishonor;

But with the humble there is wisdom.

Proverbs 11:2