the 542nd post!

"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time." (I Peter 5:6)

***I'm taking a bit of a break from the internet. If it is God's will, I will continue this sometime in the future.

subject with humility

"Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." I Peter 5:5

a meek spirit is physically healthy

"The quietness of the spirit will help to suppress depression; and this, as other of wisdom's precepts, will be health to the body and marrow to the bones: length of days and long life and peace they shall add unto you; but wrath kills the foolish man."

makes us for a day of persecution

"[Humility] makes us fit for a day of persecution. If tribulation and affliction arise because of the Word--which is no foreign supposition--the meek and quiet spirit is armed for it, so as to preserve its peace and purity at such a time, which are our two great concerns, that we may neither torment ourselves with a base fear, nor pollute ourselves with a base compliance."

do not overrate yourself

"The humble man, is ever the patient man. Pride is the source of irregular and sinful passions. A lofty spirit, will be an unyielding and peevish spirit. When we overrate ourselves--we think that we are treated unworthily, that our trials are too severe--thus we cavil and repine. ...you should have such thoughts of yourself as would put a stop to these murmurings. You should have lower and more humiliating views of yourself than any other one can have of you! Get humility--and you will have peace, whatever you trial is!"

knowledge of unworthiness & dependence on God

"Humility consists of having low thoughts of ourselves, founded upon the knowledge of our unworthiness and dependence on God's aid. The sense of the weakness of our understanding, which is the effect of humility, is a temper of soul which prepares it for faith: partly as it puts us on a serious consideration of those things which are revealed to us in the Word; partly as it stops all curious enquiries into those things which are unsearchable, and principally as it entitles to the promise, 'God giveth grace to the humble.'"

in a much better position to enjoy life

"Christianity, as we know, demands humility. That is a hard course to steer when the rest of the world (and many Christian preachers with it) urges us in the other direction. But whatever can be said against humility, this much can bes said for it: the humble person is in a much better position to enjoy life. He is, because he can still be surprised. He can take unexpected pleasure in life because anything he gets is more than expected.

The proud man, on the other hand, can never get much satisfaction because what he gets is always less than what he feels he deserves. It's not that good things don't come his way. It's just that when they do, he can't maintain any interest in them. His focus on himself crowds out the appreciation of what is not himself."

the mark

"Humility is the mark of all the faithful."

accept His dealings as good

"Meekness toward God is that disposition of spirit which we accept His dealings with us as good and therefore without disputing or resisting."

yoked with Christ

"Life in association with the Son of man, yoked with him, is freed from many problems. The frets that come from pride and ambition, from desire for outward show, from self-will, are not to be found with the meek and the lowly of heart."

"True biblical peace is the union of conflicting forces, concord where otherwise might be strife. Peace through love means ending strife and bringing harmony because of love for those who are estranged."

"Meek means yielding, gentle, mild, patient, calm, and soothing; not aggressive or self-assertive or bossy; cheerfully putting up with wrong and present disadvantages for the sake of eternal good."

"Meekness is the first requisite of the clay--rigid control of its passions and full submission to the hand of the Potter. The clay must be pliable, workable, teachable. Humility is the handmaid of wisdom, for to see ourselves just as we are in God's sight and to confess our position, is humility. Being such as we are, there can be no other result of true self-examination except humility. Add to this self-control, a rare and godly combination, and we have meekness--perfect material for divine manipulation."

humble heart

"A woman with a humble heart doesn't seek her own glory and will not parade her greatness before others or try to 'prove herself.' Rather, she realizes she is nothing without God and seeks His glory alone."

loyal servants to Christ--the true perspective

"Having the right perspective and following through with that perspective are two different things, but it is the right start. The only way a perspective can succeed is for it to always be in mind. ... The true motive for getting things into the right perspective is not fear, dread or blind compulsion. It is the master principle of love... any other motive will fail and eventually the disciple becomes disgruntled and half-hearted. But when they are love-impulsed, and inspired by what the King has done for our sakes, they favor his cause gladly, happy to be his bond-servants and heavily weighted in his favor. They are not dragging themselves after him, resentful and lukewarm. They follow him with joy and give him their allegiance in the everyday things of the Truth without demur. Loyal for love's sake: this is the true perspective."

humility

"Humility is the mark of all the faithful."

what others think of us

"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think about us if we could know how seldom they do."

humility

"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all."

to be humble

"Humility is looked at as weakness. But here's the secret: In order to be humble, you have to be strong."

be clothed with humility

"Be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." {I Peter 5:5}

"We shall therefore do well to check all feelings of self-glorification and self-importance if any such there be, and to cultivate that meekness and humility of character which only is highly esteemed by God."