Self Humbling
05 July 09

The eternal, universal principle remains: the way up is by the way down. "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted"

(Matt. 23:12). The lower down I go, the higher up God will lift me. The lesser I have in myself, the more I receive from God. It is when I am weak in my flesh that I become strong in the spirit.

D.L. Moody once said, "As a young man, I used to think that God's best gift is placed on the highest shelf and what I needed to do is simply to reach up. But not so now. I have learned that God's best gift is on the lowest shelf. To get it, I have to stoop down." The greatest example of this is given to us by Jesus Himself. From Philippians 2:5-8, we see the seven successive, downward steps Jesus took. How Jesus stooped down from a place of equality with God, to the ...

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