Humility
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the beggar from the ash heap, to set them among princes and make them inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and He has set the world upon them. He will guard the feet of His saints, but the wicked shall be silent in darkness. For by strength no man shall prevail. 1 Samuel 2:8-9
What is the most common, lowly worthless thing you can think of? Dust! Yet that is what God calls man: "Dust you are, and to dust you shall return." (Genesis 3:19) Sin makes us as worthless and powerless as dust in God's eyes. However, God tells us today that He is willing and able to raise up "the poor from the dust," and lift up "the beggar from the ash heap, to set them among princes and make them inherit the throne of glory."
How does God do this? God will do this first of all to those who humbly admit their lowly, helpless, sinful state. Then the Bible states that God will "guard the feet of His saints." Who is a saint? A saint is a person, who, by the power of God the Holy Ghost within him, does not trust in his own goodness but solely in the atoning death of Jesus Christ to pay for all his sins before God. A saint trusts that Jesus alone has earned for him a place in heaven and made him good in God's sight.
God does the hardest thing to do: forgive our sins. If one could go to the hospital today and tell a cancer patient to be healed immediately, rise, and go home, many would say he was the most powerful man on earth. But Jesus said it is easier to say "arise and walk" than it is to say, "Your sins are forgiven." (Matthew 9:5) No longer will men be dead as dust in God's sight, for "in Christ all shall be made alive." (1 Corinthians 15:22)
Heavenly Father, I who am but dust and ashes, beg of you, make me forever alive by faith in Christ Jesus. Amen.