Humility is not new. In innocence and humility, our first parents were created. They depended on God and lived under His care with all their needs supplied. UNTIL ~ In their disobedience and independence, they forfeited the relationship God had planned for them with...
“The mystery of grace 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.” Let us memorize and meditate on this statement by which Murray begins his...
Humility -- the Beauty of Holiness (audio) by Andrew Murray became a gripping study for me over twenty years ago. In those first years, the conviction of my own need for this trait of the Christian life led me to study and memorize particular quotes. These were...
Dear Ansley, When you were a child, you asked me, “Gramama, what is beauty?” I did not have an answer then and twenty years later, I am still learning. I grew up hearing that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. “Beauty is only skin deep.” “Beauty is where you find...
After posting Three Crosses, Two Crowns, One Sacrifice I wanted to do this follow-up. In that article, images depicted everything clean as if the cross of Christ was never used. The crowns were those of earthly kings. The precious sweet lamb was untouched, alive in...
The words focus, love, and rejoice came clearly from time in prayer, meditation in God’s Word, and in my circumstances. The first word, focus, is included in the title of a book I started a few years ago. Focus, Balance, and Order came during a time when things were...
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Romans 12:1-2 These verses in Romans 12 cannot be taken out of context but in relation to the whole...
The airwaves are contaminated with information that is clouding the heavens and the earth, shutting out the goodness and glory of the Lord our God. The world is polluted with a poison that spews from the heart, lips, and fingers. Instead of using social media as a...
As I continue to study Andrew Murray’s, Humility ~ the Beauty of Holiness, the end of this year seems a good time to share some treasures from this book. We can take into the new year these special truths that can change our thinking and our lives. Considering if we...