Andrew Murray on Humility
At church, a couple of guys and I are reading through Andrew Murray’s little book called Humility. I am struck by the way in which Murray addresses this topic.
Humility is one of those virtues that is elusive, to say the least. To claim to have it is not to have it! And yet in Christ, we must have it, because of who He is as Creator and Lord, and who we are as created and follower.
Humility is a short book, but it is consuming, because it draws the believer in and creates a meditating heart. To see what I mean, read the first paragraph:
When God created the universe, it was with the one object of making the creature partaker of His perfection and blessedness, and so showing forth in it the glory of His love and wisdom and power. God wished to reveal Himself in and through created beings by communicating to them as much of His own goodness and glory as they were capable of receiving. But this communication was not a giving to the creature something which it could possess in itself, a certain life or goodness, of which it had the charge and disposal. By no means. But as God is the ever-living, ever-present, ever-acting One, who upholdeth all things by the word of His power, and in whom all things exist, the relation of the creature to God could only be one of unceasing, absolute, universal dependence. As truly as God by His power once created, so truly by that same power must God every moment maintain. The creature has not only to look back to the origin and first beginning of existence, and acknowledge that it there owes everything to God; its chief care, its highest virtue, its only happiness, now and through all eternity, is to present itself an empty vessel, in which God can dwell and manifest His power and goodness.
Humility (the book) can be read free online, or can be purchased through Amazon: