HUMILITY
– HEAVENLY HAUTE COUTURE
BREAD
All
of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God
opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
1 Peter 5:5 (NIV)
12 Therefore,
as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with
compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Colossians 3:12 (NIV)
Having
loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his
love….
3 Jesus
knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come
from God and was returning to God; 4 so he got up from the meal, took off his outer
clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5 After that, he poured water
into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel
that was wrapped around him.
John 13:1B, 3-5 (NIV)
2 When
pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
Proverbs 11:2 (NIV)
33 The
fear of the Lord teaches a man
wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 15:33 (NIV)
BUTTER
“There is no
true holiness without humility.”
Thomas Fuller
“For as long as
a man is not emptied of himself and of his own righteousness and goodness, he
will have a legal spirit. A spirit of
pride in one’s own righteousness, morality, holiness, affection, experience,
faith, humiliation or any other goodness, is a legal spirit…It is even possible
to have a self-righteous spirit about one’s own humility and to be
self-confident about one’s own abasement…But he whose heart is subject to
Christian humility has a very different attitude…Christians who are real saints
and the greatest in the Kingdom…humble themselves as a little child…They look
upon themselves as children in grace.” Jonathan
Edwards
“Because Jesus
Christ came into the world clothed in humility, He will always be found among
those who are clothed with humility.”
A.W. Tozer
“Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as
humility.” Jonathan Edwards
HEART SAVOR
- · God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
- · I will fall with pride but gain wisdom with humility.
- · Humility comes from a clear understanding of who I am. 7 For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not? 1 Corinthians 4:7 (NIV)
