This morning's devotional by Charles Spurgeon was pretty appropriate in light of our Tuesday discussion about control, pride and our fears.
I want to insert a few quotes for you directly out of the text, as they really spoke to me (I HIGHLY recommend reading with a British accent... Spurgeon's style of writing is much more fun that way!):
O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing to make you proud. The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a debtor....
...are you not taught thereby that it is grace that has made you to differ?...
..Therefore, do not be proud, though you have a large influence-a wide domain of grace, for once you did not have a single thing to call your own except your sin and misery. Oh, strange infatuation that you, who has borrowed everything, should think of exalting yourself - a poor, dependent pensioner upon the bounty of your Savior, one who has a life that dies without fresh streams of life from Jesus, and yet is proud!! Fie on you, O silly heart!
Love how direct and bold he is in putting us in our place. He's SO on point, though - agree??
Excited to hear how everyone cast the reigns aside this week when we meet again next week...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment