Humility...

When it comes to spiritual books I’m drawn to topics that I know I’m particularly weak in and that I know are virtues which are close to God’s heart. This month (as in most months) feeling ensnared in a STICKY, web of pride, I thought I should focus my heart and mind on humility.

Andrew Murray’s Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness was patiently waiting for me in my kindle library for just the right moment. What is it about reading the right book at the right time? It’s life changing. Just like the perfume memory connection a good book is linked to seasons in our lives. I can hardly think about a book like this and not remember what was going on in my life or how God was guiding me at that particular time. This book is no different. God used this book to rescue me from a very difficult situation (myself).

It's a short, easy read and I recommend it with my whole heart! I’ve included a few quotes to entice you...

“...it is indeed pride that makes faith impossible...faith and humility are at root one...we shall see that we may indeed have strong intellectual conviction and assurance of the truth while pride is kept in the heart, but that it makes the living faith, which has power with God, an impossibility.”

“Just as water ever seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds the creature abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and bless.”

“...the insignificances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us. It is our most unguarded moments that we really show and see what we are.”

“Let us gladly glory and take pleasure in weakness, in all that can humble us and keep us low; the power of Christ will rest upon us.”