The LORD JESUS Gives Grace to the Humble

 

I bless the Christ of God, I rest on love Divine

And with unfaltering lip and heart, I call the Savior mine

His cross dispels each doubt; I bury in His tomb

Each thought of unbelief and fear

Each lingering shade of gloom.  

I praise the God of peace, I trust His truth and might

He call me His, I call Him mine, my God, my Joy, my Light

In Him is only good, in me is only ill

My ill but draws His goodness forth

And me He loveth still.

‘Tis He who saveth me, and freely pardon gives

I love because He loveth me; I live because He lives

My life with Him is hid, my death has passed away

My clouds have melted into Light

My midnight into day. 

 

-Hymn, “This is my Father’s World” 

 


PRIDE

 

Pride could be called the original sin.  It made Satan want to exalt his throne above God’s (Isaiah 14:13-14).  It was the sin he used to tempt Eve.  “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, that your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5).  Pride would take God’s place if it could.  Pride is a groundless sin.  “What do you have that ye did not receive.”  Pride is a senseless sin.  Other sins may give us something we think we need, but all pride does is render us more like the devil.  

 

The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Creator of the universe was not proud!  He said of Himself, “I am meek and lowly in heart.”  Amazingly, every one of us are full of pride!  God hates pride!  Pride of race, face, place, and most especially, pride of grace!  May the Lord deliver us from this sin of our fallen human nature…Pride!  “God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.”  -I Peter 5:5

 

-unknown preacher of righteousness 

 

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