Satan fears virtue. He is terrified of humility; he hates it. He sees a humble person and it seems chills down his back. His hair stands up when Christians kneel down, for humility is the surrender of the soul to God. The devil trembles before the meek because in the very areas where he once had access, there stands the Lord, and satan is terrified of Jesus Christ. We need to recognize that the immediate source of many of our problems and oppressions is not demonic but fleshly in nature. We must contend with the fact that one aspect or our lives, our flesh nature,will always be targeted by the devil. These fleshly areas supply satan with a ready avenue of access to undermine our prayers and neutralize our walk with God. It is only our exaggerated sense of self-righteousness that prevents us from looking honestly at ourselves. We Know Who is in us, but we must remember what is in us if we are to be succesfull in our warfare. Do not rationalize your sins and failures. Accordingly, be honest with God. He loved you without restraint even when sin was rampant within you; how much more will He continue to love you as you seek His grace to be free from iniquity? Before we launch out in aggressive "warfare", we must realize that many of our battles are merely the consequences of our own actions. To war effectively, we must seperate what is of the flesh from what is from the devil. We must ask ourselves: are the things opressing us today the harvest of what we planted yesterday? (Francis Frangipane- The Three Battle grounds) More on Humility: Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is,from the very nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue of man. It is the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil. Humility is not so much a grace or virtue along with the others; it is the root of all, because it assumes the right attitude before God and allows Him as God to do all. It (humility) 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. (Andrew Murray- Humility) Jesus was our ultimate example of humility: In His words spoken in the chapter of John, He uses the words "not" and "nothing" when refering to Himself. "The Son can do nothing of Himself" Jn. 5:19 "I can of My own self do nothing;...because I seek not Mine own will" Jn. 5:30 "I seek not Mine own glory" Jn. 8:50 "Learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart" Matt. 11:29 for more understanding of humility read Humility by Andrew Murray (a little book with a big message!) |
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