"The creature has not only to look back to the origin and first beginning of existence, and acknowledge that it there owes everything to God; its chief care, its highest virtue, its only happiness, now and through all eternity, is to present itself an empty vessel, in which God can dwell and manifest His power and goodness.
The life God bestows is imparted not once for all, but each moment continuously, by the unceasing operation of His mighty power. Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very nature of things, the first duty and highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.
And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil."
From the book Humility by Andrew Murray
Just chewing on this. The opposite of humility-- being like my Savior and all that He is--- is pride.
Kill pride in me.
Make me more like You, Jesus.
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