Humility: The Beauty of Holiness
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Humility: The Beauty of Holiness, is a book by Andrew Murray (minister)
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The focus of the books is this: that no tree can grow except on the root from which it sprang. Through all its existence it can only live by the life that was in the seed that gave it being. The full apprehension of this truth - in its application to the first and to the Second Adam cannot but help us to understand both the need and the nature of the redemption that is in Jesus.
"His humility became our salvation. His salvation is our humility."
Murray explains in this book how we may find professors and teachers, in whom the gifts of the Spirit are many and manifest, and who are the channels of blessings to multitudes, but of whom, when tested, or close interpersonal relationships reveal their true characters, and that it is evident that the grace of humility, as an abiding characteristic, is rarely to be seen. "All of this tends to confirm the reality that humility is one of the chief and highest virtues, one of the most difficult to attain, and one of which our first and greatest efforts ought to be directed."
"it is from our pride that we need, above everything else, to be redeemed. And our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power of pride that has entered our being.."
Jesus said:
"I am among you as one who serves" Luke 22:27
"The Son can do nothing by himself" John 5:19
"He who humbles himself will be exalted" Luke 18:14
"Learn from Me for I am gentle and humble in heart" Mat 11:29
Paul teaches:
Phil 2 "regard one another as more important than yourself...have this attitude in yourself which was also in Christ Jesus, who although He existed in the form of God..emptied Himself...humbled Himself"
The Kingdom belongs to the humble - the poor in spirit.
The Earth belongs to the lowly - the meek, according to Jesus's teaching in Matthew 5
Murray says that when our heart is set upon this true sanctification, we will study each word of Jesus on self-abasement with new zeal, and no place will be too low, no stooping too far, and no service too mean or too long if we may but share and prove the fellowship with Him who said "I am amoung you as one who serves" (Luke 22:27) According to Murray this is the path to the higher life. It is the lowest path!
"Jesus, the meek and lowly One, calls us to learn of Him the path to God. Let us study the words we have been reading until all our hearts is filled with the thought: My one need is humility. And let us believe that what He shows He gives, anbd what He is He imparrts. As the meek and lowly One, He will come into and dwell within the longing heart."
Humility is not just a virtue along with all the others, but it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God and allows Him, as God, to do all.
The book ends with a prayer one can earnestly pray towards transformation.
Andrew Murray (minister)
Andrew Murray was a South African writer, teacher, and Christian pastor. Murray considered missions to be "the chief end of the church."- Early life and education :...
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The focus of the books is this: that no tree can grow except on the root from which it sprang. Through all its existence it can only live by the life that was in the seed that gave it being. The full apprehension of this truth - in its application to the first and to the Second Adam cannot but help us to understand both the need and the nature of the redemption that is in Jesus.
"His humility became our salvation. His salvation is our humility."
Murray explains in this book how we may find professors and teachers, in whom the gifts of the Spirit are many and manifest, and who are the channels of blessings to multitudes, but of whom, when tested, or close interpersonal relationships reveal their true characters, and that it is evident that the grace of humility, as an abiding characteristic, is rarely to be seen. "All of this tends to confirm the reality that humility is one of the chief and highest virtues, one of the most difficult to attain, and one of which our first and greatest efforts ought to be directed."
"it is from our pride that we need, above everything else, to be redeemed. And our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power of pride that has entered our being.."
Jesus said:
"I am among you as one who serves" Luke 22:27
"The Son can do nothing by himself" John 5:19
"He who humbles himself will be exalted" Luke 18:14
"Learn from Me for I am gentle and humble in heart" Mat 11:29
Paul teaches:
Phil 2 "regard one another as more important than yourself...have this attitude in yourself which was also in Christ Jesus, who although He existed in the form of God..emptied Himself...humbled Himself"
The Kingdom belongs to the humble - the poor in spirit.
The Earth belongs to the lowly - the meek, according to Jesus's teaching in Matthew 5
Murray says that when our heart is set upon this true sanctification, we will study each word of Jesus on self-abasement with new zeal, and no place will be too low, no stooping too far, and no service too mean or too long if we may but share and prove the fellowship with Him who said "I am amoung you as one who serves" (Luke 22:27) According to Murray this is the path to the higher life. It is the lowest path!
"Jesus, the meek and lowly One, calls us to learn of Him the path to God. Let us study the words we have been reading until all our hearts is filled with the thought: My one need is humility. And let us believe that what He shows He gives, anbd what He is He imparrts. As the meek and lowly One, He will come into and dwell within the longing heart."
Humility is not just a virtue along with all the others, but it is the root of all, because it alone takes the right attitude before God and allows Him, as God, to do all.
The book ends with a prayer one can earnestly pray towards transformation.
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