[Manna - June 14]
God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 1 Peter 5:5
ABOVE almost everything else, beloved, let us
guard well our humility.
It is only when we are little
in our own eyes that God can use us with safety to
ourselves.
And yet He does not shield us from every
test of fidelity.
If therefore the Lord give you a little
exaltation today, a little encouragement of success in
His service, receive it humbly, meekly, remembering
your own unworthiness and insufficiency except as
God is pleased to work through you; and be just as
ready to receive the humiliations of tomorrow as necessary
for your discipline and the proper balancing
of your character.
If the success of yesterday make
you fret under the humiliation of today, beware!
You
are not as roundly developed spiritually as you should
be. Z.'96-19 R1920:5