| Hey everyone...I don`t have much to say but this little part from my
devotional written by Charles Spurgeon. I hope it encourages
you. It`s 1:30 a.m. so I have to go to bed. Anyway I`ll
TTYL. Good night and God bless. 
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.
P.S....sorry for the old english...I don`t have time to update the language right now. Maybe later
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