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Book 50: Humility, the Journey Toward Holiness, Andrew Murray. 110pp
This is an updated-for-modern-readers edition. This is something I have mixed feelings about. On one hand I'm glad that such versions are available for those with less literary minds, because they can still reap the benefits; on the other hand, I loathe the dumbing-down of anything.
Still, despite the fact that this is an updated-for-modern-readers edition, I enjoyed it very much. It is VERY deep and would require many readings for the truths in it to really sink in. My brain would shut off every once in a while from overload, so it's taken me several sittings to get through it although it's a very little book. It made me think about humility in a way I have never thought of it before and made me think of how really important it is to be nothing so God can be all. Something definitely to be working on in my walk with Him, moving from "All of me, and none of Thee" to "None of me, and all of Thee!" as one old hymn puts it. (I'm paraphrasing, because I'm too lazy to go look up the hymn.)
"There is so little of the meek and lowly Lamb of God in those who are called by His name. Let us consider how our lack of love, indifference to the needs and feelings of others, even sharp comments and hasty judgments that are often excused as being honest and straightforward, are thwarting the effect of the influence of the Holy Spirit on others. Manifestations of temper and touchiness and irritation, feelings of bitterness and estrangement, have their root in nothing but pride."
"If we long for [a life of humility], let us above everything seek the secret of the knowledge of the nature of God, the secret of which every child of God is to be a witness: nothing but a vessel, a channel through which the living God can manifest the riches of His wisdom, power, and goodness."
"...external teaching and personal effort are powerless to conquer pride or create the meek and lowly heart in a person. ...no outward instruction, not even of Christ Himself; no argument, however convincing; no sense of the beauty of humility, however deep; no personal resolve or effort, however sincere and earnest, can cast out pride. When Satan casts out Satan, it is only that he might enter afresh in a mightier, subtler power. Nothing works but this: that the new nature in its divine humility be revealed in power to take the place of the old."
"Acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly formed will becomes the character."
This is an updated-for-modern-readers edition. This is something I have mixed feelings about. On one hand I'm glad that such versions are available for those with less literary minds, because they can still reap the benefits; on the other hand, I loathe the dumbing-down of anything.
Still, despite the fact that this is an updated-for-modern-readers edition, I enjoyed it very much. It is VERY deep and would require many readings for the truths in it to really sink in. My brain would shut off every once in a while from overload, so it's taken me several sittings to get through it although it's a very little book. It made me think about humility in a way I have never thought of it before and made me think of how really important it is to be nothing so God can be all. Something definitely to be working on in my walk with Him, moving from "All of me, and none of Thee" to "None of me, and all of Thee!" as one old hymn puts it. (I'm paraphrasing, because I'm too lazy to go look up the hymn.)
"There is so little of the meek and lowly Lamb of God in those who are called by His name. Let us consider how our lack of love, indifference to the needs and feelings of others, even sharp comments and hasty judgments that are often excused as being honest and straightforward, are thwarting the effect of the influence of the Holy Spirit on others. Manifestations of temper and touchiness and irritation, feelings of bitterness and estrangement, have their root in nothing but pride."
"If we long for [a life of humility], let us above everything seek the secret of the knowledge of the nature of God, the secret of which every child of God is to be a witness: nothing but a vessel, a channel through which the living God can manifest the riches of His wisdom, power, and goodness."
"...external teaching and personal effort are powerless to conquer pride or create the meek and lowly heart in a person. ...no outward instruction, not even of Christ Himself; no argument, however convincing; no sense of the beauty of humility, however deep; no personal resolve or effort, however sincere and earnest, can cast out pride. When Satan casts out Satan, it is only that he might enter afresh in a mightier, subtler power. Nothing works but this: that the new nature in its divine humility be revealed in power to take the place of the old."
"Acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly formed will becomes the character."