Today is a beautiful day, because humility is understanding my position before a powerful, holy and faithful God. “This, my friend, is the secret of secrets. It will help you to reap where you have not sewn, and will be a continual source of grace in your soul; for everything that inwardly stirs you or … Read more
Today is a beautiful day, because we can get out of the way and let God rule in our hearts through prayer. “…that all of His great goodness He would make known to you, and take from your heart every kind and form of pride, whether it is from evil spirits or your own corrupt … Read more
Today is a beautiful day, because God is not done with us yet. “Make His glory your motivation to humble yourself; He will make your glory His motivation to perfect your humility.” (Andrew Murray. Humility, p 100. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co. 1895) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because of God’s glory. “The highest glory of the creature is in being a vessel to receive and enjoy and show forth the glory of God. It can do this only as it is willing to be nothing in itself, that God may be everything.” (Andrew Murray. Humility, p 99. … Read more
Today is a beautiful day, because God prepares us through struggle and rewards our faithful effort. “All God’s dealings with man are characterized by two stages. There is the time of preparation, when command and promise, with the mingled experience of effort and impotence, of failure and partial success, with the holy expectancy of something … Read more
Today is a beautiful day, because Andrew Murray continues, “Accept with gratitude everything that God allows from within or without, from friend or enemy, in nature or in grace, to remind you of your need for humbling and to help you in it. Recon humility to be the mother virtue and your first duty before … Read more
Today is a beautiful day, because “not to be occupied with yourself, but to be fully occupied with God, brings deliverance from self.” (Andrew Murray. Humility, p 73. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co. 1895) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because of Godly writers like Andrew Murray, writing in the late 1800’s, who tell us, “Flee to Jesus and hide yourself in Him until you are clothed in His humility.” (Humility, pp 64-65. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co. 1895) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because Jesus told his disciples, “Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:1-3 NIV) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because God’s ways are not our ways and some we may think come first will end up last, and vice versa, on the day Jesus sits on His throne. (from Matthew 19:30, Mark 10:31 and Luke 13:30 ESV) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday