Faith and Humility: Lessons from Romans 11:11–24 | 7-Step QT Devotional

 Faith with Pride? Faith with Humility! 🙇🏻

7-Step QT

  1. 🙏 Quiet Time

  2. 📅 September 29, 2025

  3. ✝️ Romans 11:11-24

  4. 📖 That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear (v. 20).

  5. 📝 Early believers misused grace, claiming salvation allowed sinful living—a belief rooted in pride. Paul warns that faith and humility cannot be separated. God’s love is real, but so is His justice. Today, live humbly, remembering that grace is not a license to sin but a call to holiness.

  6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

  7. 🙏 Share below, and let’s encourage one another in prayer!

7-Step QT Notes

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

Pause. Take a deep breath. Ask God to keep your heart humble and rooted in His grace today.

2. 📅 September 29, 2025

Today’s passage reminds us: Faith stands on grace, not pride.

3. ✝️ Romans 11:11–24

Paul warns believers: Israel stumbled, but not beyond recovery. Gentile believers were grafted in by faith, like wild branches into a cultivated olive tree. But this privilege is not a reason for pride—it’s a call to humility. If God didn’t spare the natural branches because of unbelief, He won’t spare arrogance either.

4. 📖 Key Verse

“They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.” (v. 20)

5. 📝 Reflection

We live in a culture that celebrates self-confidence and achievement. But spiritual pride is dangerous. Some early Christians thought, “I’m saved, so I can live however I want.” That same mindset exists today—treating grace like a free pass instead of a gift that transforms us.

Paul reminds us: faith and humility go hand in hand. We didn’t earn our place in God’s family; we were grafted in by grace. So instead of boasting, let’s stay rooted in gratitude and live lives that reflect His holiness.

6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

  • Where do I see pride creeping into my faith?
  • How can I stay rooted in grace instead of comparing myself to others?
  • What would it look like to live humbly and gratefully this week?

7. 🙏 Prayer

Lord, thank You for grafting me into Your family by grace. Keep me from pride and help me walk in humility and gratitude. Teach me to live in a way that honors You and reflects Your love to others. Amen.

Scriptures

📖 11 So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. 12 Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean! 13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry 14 in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. 15 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? 16 If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, 18 do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. 19 Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” 20 That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. 22 Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. 23 And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree (Rom 11:11-24, ESV).

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