“Without this there can be no true abiding in God’s presence, or experience of His favor and the power of His Spirit; without this no abiding faith, or love or joy or strength.”
humility is what i'm talking about, by the way. still on this humility journey and will be for quite a while.
so, Andrew Murray says that without humility there is no - experiencing God's presence or favor or power of His Spirit or faith or love or joy or strength.
well, that's a pretty sucky life without all those things. (i'll write more about this later but that's why i'm saying crazy things to God like - "do whatever it takes to make me humble." i can't see any other way to happiness.)
AND humility is a pretty big deal because:
“the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure.”
wow. that's a pretty big statement, Mr Murray. and if you're right, then how do we get/have humility? what do we do? what even is it?
“it is simply the sense of entire nothingness, which comes when we see how truly God is all, and in which we make way for God to be all.”
those are the greatest words on humility i've ever heard. it's this yin & yang. us and God. we need to simply see ourselves like we really, truly are = NOTHING. and see God... even a glimpse... of Who He really, truly is - ALL.
boom. done deal. we'll never be the same. no room for pride then. pride is ludicrous. humility is the only thing for sane people at that point.
“humility is simply acknowledging the truth of my position as creature, and yielding to God His place.”
And just to remind us how big of a deal humility actually is (like we talked about in the previous post - "the most important thing")...
“Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with others; it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God, and allows Him as God to do all.” anybody starting to see how crazy important this is?
i'm desperate to be humble and kick pride out. i wanna do whatever it takes.
but somehow - we, our culture, the Church, etc... talk and think about it so very very little.
maybe we just need to be reminded that it's a pretty big deal.
