R.A. Torrey said D.L. Moody was “the humblest man I ever knew in all my life.”
Faith gets the most; love works the most; but humility keeps the most.
In this year’s musical Operation Arctic, Alexandra Lela sings the song, ‘It’s All About Me’ in which pride and self-love is contrasted with humility before the LORD.
From experience D.L. Moody had seen the wreckage pride could bring first to individuals and then to their ministries. Thus, he would get down on his face before God, knowing he was human, and ask God to empty him of all self-sufficiency. And God did.
We live in a cultural moment when the self esteem pendulum is at its extreme apex naturally feeding into our proclivity for autonomous self-aggrandizement in keeping with our first parents’ fall. Ironically this coincides with the highest levels of depression and suicide. Popular Tic Tok icons and the medium itself simultaneously feed a person’s self-gratification while also generating self-loathing for not measuring up to artificial standards.
One of Verideia’s morning call outs is Discern – able to see things as they really are. This fits well with what Spurgeon said about humility. “Humility is to have a right estimation of one’s self – not to think less of himself than he ought. – The higher a man is in grace, the lower will he be in his own esteem.”
“It is out of the depths of our humility that the height of our destiny looks grandest. Let me truly feel that in myself I am nothing, and at once, through every inlet of my soul, God comes in, and is everything in me.”
W. MOUNTFORD
When will we really embrace what Jesus told us and lived out? “But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first,” Matthew 19:30. Parents, the consistent insistence of proper manners and tone of speech in your homes goes a long way to seeing things as they really are.
