Letting God Be All In All
You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.
Revelation 4:11
Humility has been called “the ability to withhold from others the high opinion you hold of yourself” and “the art of wearing greatness gently.” More accurately, it is the result of a correct estimation of oneself.
Advertisement
The incomparable example of humility is, of course, Jesus. The Creator became the creature in order that “every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord” (Philippians 2:11). Andrew Murray shares this insight into the practice of humility.
WALK WITH ANDREW MURRAY
“The call to humility has been too little regarded in the church, because its true nature and importance have not been understood.
“It is not something we bring to God, or he bestows. 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.
“When the creature realizes that this is the true nobility, and consents with his will, his mind, and his affections to be the form, the vessel in which the life and glory of God are to work and manifest themselves, then he sees that humility is simply acknowledging the truth of his position as creature, and yielding to God his rightful place.”
WALK CLOSER TO GOD
The bigger your God becomes, the smaller will seem his creatures—including you!
Drawing near to God is the best way to gain a fresh view of his greatness and grandeur.
In C. S. Lewis’s popular fantasy The Chronicles of Narnia, one of the characters provides this concise definition of what it meant for God to become a man: “A stable once held something inside that was bigger than our whole world.”
Think of it: God residing in the lives of his believing creatures!
The question remains: How much room does he occupy in your life?
