Humilty

As promised here is my blog about the book Humility by Andrew Murray. It was a great, quick read at only about 55 pages.

This book really hit me in a number of ways. We are all taught to be humble, but this book really broke down how dangerous pride is and exactly what it looks like to be humble through examples in Jesus' life. In order to humble ourselves, we must gain a larger view of God. We must put things into perspective of just how little we are and how great God is. Christ humbled himself and became man. Here are a few quotes and ideas that really hit me while I was reading.

"Be the witness through which the living God can manifest the riches of His wisdom, power, and goodness."

In order for God's riches to manifest within us, we must be humble, none of self and all of thee. We must empty ourselves of the world so that we may be refilled with God, for there is no room for both. We turn are hearts, minds, and bodies towards God and His will and desires. Just as Jesus humbled himself and became man, we must humble ourselves and become servants, both to God and others around us. 

"His humility us our salvation. His salvation is our humility."

We should automatically be humbled just by the fact of our salvation. Jesus came and did for us through his crucifixion and resurrection what we could not do for ourselves. He literally saved us from ourselves and the sin that we lived in. There was nothing we could do to save ourselves, but we were completely and utterly dependent of God for our own salvation even before we knew it. If that isn't humbling I don't know what is.

Pride is man's worst enemy for "the holiest will ever be the humblest."

I think of myself as a very humble non-arrogant or prideful person, but the fact of the matter is that we are all very prideful. We all get caught up in our own pride. We all, at times, see somebody and think to ourselves, even if it's subconsciously, that we are better than them. We allow our pride to elevate us to a higher level than some of those around us. We cannot allow that and must fight it everyday. We must indulge ourselves with the Word and in God for he is the only true source of humility. He is the source from which we must build our lives.

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. ~Proverbs 11:2