HUMILITY The Beauty of Holiness by Andrew Murray this version was found on the internet-please buy a reliable and an inexpensive copy from Publisher: Christian Literature Crusade http://www.clcministriesinternational.org/ 710-8 MURRAY, Andrew Humility 5.99 We make a little to support PeaceMakers.net when you order from one of the following: To order from Amazon.com-Click Here To Order from BarnesAndNoble.com-Click Here PREFACE Chapter 1HUMILITY: THE GLORY OF THE CREATURE Chapter 2HUMILITY: THE SECRET OF REDEMPTION Chapter 3 HUMILITY IN THE LIFE OF JESUS Chapter 4HUMILITY IN THE TEACHING OF JESUS Chapter 5HUMILITY IN THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS Chapter 6 HUMILITY IN DAILY LIFE Chapter 7HUMILITY AND HOLINESS Chapter 8HUMILITY AND SIN Chapter 9 HUMILITY AND FAITH Chapter 10- HUMILITY AND DEATH TO SELF Chapter 11HUMILITY AND HAPPINESS Chapter 12HUMILITY AND EXALTATION PREFACE There are three great motives that urge us to humility. It becomes me as a creature, as a sinner, as a saint. The first we see in the heavenly hosts, in unfallen man, in Jesus as Son of Man. The second appeals to us in our fallen state, and points out the only way through which we can return to our right place as creatures. In the third we have the mystery of grace, which teaches us that, as we lose ourselves in the overwhelming greatness of redeeming love, humility becomes to us the consummation of everlasting blessedness and adoration. In our ordinary religious teaching, the second aspect has been too exclusively put in the foreground, so that some have even gone to the extreme of saying that we must keep sinning if we are indeed to keep humble. Others again have thought that the strength of self-condemnation is the secret of humility. And the Christian life has suffered loss, where believers have not been distinctly guided to see that, even in our relation as creatures, nothing is more natural and beautiful and blessed than to be nothing, that God may be all; or where it has not been made clear that it is not sin that humbles most, but grace, and that it is the soul, led through its sinfulness to be occupied with God in His wonderful glory as God, as Creator and Redeemer, that will truly take the lowest place before Him. | |
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