AMEN KAYAK
GRACE TO ALL BRETHREN!
"He humbled himself."
- Philippians 2:8
Jesus is the great teacher of lowliness of heart. We need daily to learn
of him. See the Master taking a towel and washing his disciples' feet!
Follower of Christ, wilt thou not humble thyself? See him as the Servant
of servants, and surely thou canst not be proud! Is not this sentence the
compendium of his biography, "He humbled himself"? Was he not on earth
always stripping off first one robe of honour and then another, till,
naked, he was fastened to the cross, and there did he not empty out his
inmost self, pouring out his life-blood, giving up for all of us, till
they laid him penniless in a borrowed grave? How low was our dear Redeemer
brought! How then can we be proud? Stand at the foot of the cross, and
count the purple drops by which you have been cleansed; see the
thorn-crown; mark his scourged shoulders, still gushing with encrimsoned
rills; see hands and feet given up to the rough iron, and his whole self
to mockery and scorn; see the bitterness, and the pangs, and the throes of
inward grief, showing themselves in his outward frame; hear the thrilling
shriek, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" And if you do not lie
prostrate on the ground before that cross, you have never seen it: if you
are not humbled in the presence of Jesus, you do not know him. You were so
lost that nothing could save you but the sacrifice of God's only begotten.
Think of that, and as Jesus stooped for you, bow yourself in lowliness at
his feet. A sense of Christ's amazing love to us has a greater tendency to
humble us than even a consciousness of our own guilt. May the Lord bring
us in contemplation to Calvary, then our position will no longer be that
of the pompous man of pride, but we shall take the humble place of one who
loves much because much has been forgiven him.
Pride cannot live beneath the cross.
Let us sit there and learn our lesson, and then rise and carry it into
practice.
C.H.SPURGEON!
SOLI DEO GLORIA!