If you want to be useful to God’s church, ask God to give you humility, for God is only served in humility (Acts 20:19). A humble person is a great blessing to others and it is easy to be with a humble person. We are most Christ-like when we are humble (Phil. 2:5-7). A humble person will be thankful because he knows he doesn’t deserve anything. A humble person won’t be a boaster because he knows he doesn’t have anything to boast in except Christ. A humble person won’t be lifted up with pride because he knows everything he has God gave him and everything he is God made him. A humble person has a teachable attitude because he knows he doesn’t know it all. A humble person will forgive easily and assumes the best of others. A humble person is a happy person because he is content with whatever God has seen fit to give him. A humble person is a gracious person because God gives grace to the humble (I Peter 5:5). A humble person will submit to the will of God in all things: “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time” (I Peter 5:6). Oh to be a humble person!
DELIVER ME FROM MY WILL
Don’t ever preach to me that the salvation of my soul is left up to my will or my choice! That kind of preaching denies the plain teaching of scripture, which says all men are nothing but sin. Man’s sinful will always chooses the way of the destruction of the soul not the salvation of the soul. Luke 23:25 shows us that the will of man is to try to put God off the throne by crucifying the Lord Jesus Christ. God deliver me from my will! Oh God give me a new heart and a new will! Save me against my will with my full consent. Save me by grace through your almighty will! Don’t let my will be done. Let thy will be done!
THE CHRISTIAN PARADOX
The believer believes things his reason cannot comprehend, and hopes for things neither he nor any man alive has ever seen.
He believes three to be one and one to be three.
He believes the Father not to be older than the Son, and the Son to be equal with the Father.
He believes the Child to be the Father of the mother.
He believes himself to be precious in God’s sight, yet loathes himself in his own.
He dare not justify himself even in those things wherein he can find no fault in himself; yet believes God accepts him in those services wherein he is able to find many faults.
He is so ashamed that he dare not open his mouth before the Lord, yet comes with boldness to God and asks Him anything he needs.
He has within him both flesh and spirit, yet he is not a double minded man.
He is often led captive by the law of sin, yet it never gets dominion over him.
He cannot sin, yet cannot do anything without sin.
He is so humble as to acknowledge himself to deserve nothing but evil, yet believes God means him nothing but good.
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