Week Nine

O lowliness, how feebly known,

That meets the grace that gave the Son!

That waits, to serve Him as His own,

Till grace what grace began shall crown!.

Pride is the greatest of all evils that beset us, and of all our enemies it is that which dies the slowest and hardest.

God hates pride above all things, because it gives to man the place that belongs to Him who is above, exalted over all. Pride intercepts communion with God, and draws down His chastisement, for “God resists the proud.”

He who is lowest and lowliest will be most blessed.

Often the soul, by seeking joy, cannot get it; this would not purify and bless it and to bless God must purify. When emptied of self and seeking God we find joy.

Shall I ever forget the humiliation of Christ? … Never! never! through all eternity. I shall never forget His humiliation on earth. While seeing Him in glory animates the soul to run after Him, what feeds the soul is the bread come down. That produces a spirit that thinks of everything but itself. … Go and study Him, and live by Him, and you will come out in His likeness, in all His grace and gentleness and loveliness. … The Lord give us to be so occupied with Him who was so full of love … so full of lowliness, that we shall manifest the same.

True humility does not so much consist in thinking badly of ourselves as in not thinking of ourselves at all. I am too bad to be worth thinking about. What I want is, to forget myself and to look to God, who is worth all my thoughts.

The only real humbleness and strength and blessing is to forget self in the presence and blessedness of God.

May you be in yourself so broken down that you may find One who never breaks down.

We do not know how to be weak, that is our weakness.

The humble spirit does not think so much—it receives God’s thoughts.

The Lord be with you, and keep you near Himself, humble and serving, but having more of Him than you spend in service.