The New Life

Humility.
glory rest upon himself.* The more he forgets and
loses himself, desiring to be nothing, that God may be
all and be alone glorified, the more happy shall he be.
By sin this design has been thwarted ; man seeks
himself and his own will.^ Grace has come to restore
what sin has corrupted, and to bring man to glory by
the pathway of dying unto himself and living solely
for the glory of God. This is the humility or lowliness
of which Jesus is the exemplar : He took no
thought for Himself, He gave Himself over wholly to
glorify the Father.^
He who would be freed from self-exaltation must
not think to obtain this by striving against its mere
workings. No : pride must be driven out and kept
out by humility. The Spirit of life in Christ, the
Spirit of His lowliness, will work in us true lowliness.*
The means that He will chiefly use for this end is
the word. It is by the word that we are cleansed
from sin ; it is by the word that we are sanctified and
filled with the love of God.
Observe what the word says about this point. It
speaks of God's aversion to pride, and the punishment
that comes upon it.^ It gives the most glorious
promises to the lowly.* In well-nigh every Epistle,
1 Isa. xliii. 7, 21 ;
John xii. 28, xiii. 31, 32, xvii. i, 4> 5 5 1 Cor. x.
31 ; 2 Thess. i. 11, 12.
2 Rora. i. 21, 23. 3 John viii. 50 ;
Phil. ii. 7.
* Rom. viii. 2 ; Phil. ii. 5.
5 Ps. xxxi. 24 ; Prov. xvi. 5 ; Matt, xxiii. 12 ;
I^uke i. 51 ; Jas.
iv. 6 ; I Pet. v. 5.
6 Ps. xxxiv. 19 ; Prov. xi. 2.; Isa. Ivii. 15 ; I^uke ix. 48, xiv. 11,
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