Jesus says to all who come to Him that they must first and foremost learn one thing of Him: humility! Humility is that power that can place itself in a low position. “He humbled himself,” says Paul in Philippians 2:8. Humility leads us to feel that we ourselves are nothing but that God is all. It seeks not its own glory but directs everything away from itself. It was in this spirit that a noted English missionary, after a bishop had eulogized him in a large gathering, simply recited the little stanza:
Lo here I fall, my Savior,
‘Tis I deserve Thy place;
Look on me with Thy favor,
Vouchsafe to me Thy grace.
Taken from: In the Footprints of the Lamb
by George Steinberger
Edited and mildly modernized with an Introduction by Ralph I. Tilley
Copyright © 2015 Ralph I. Tilley
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