How Low Can You Go?
Thursday, April 18, 2024
“Stoop if you want to climb to heaven.” – C.H. Spurgeon
In yesterday’s devotional message, I tried – with a lot of help from Charles Spurgeon – to convey the importance of climbing ever upward in our Christian life, always reaching for new spiritual heights. Today, I’d like to turn the entire devotional over to the “Prince of Preachers” so he can emphasize how critical it is to humble ourselves first, before we can climb… and eventually soar!
Humiliation of soul always brings a positive blessing with it. If we empty our hearts of self, God will fill them with His love.
You must grow downwards, that you may grow upwards; for the sweetest fellowship with heaven will be enjoyed by humble souls and by them alone. God will deny no blessing to a thoroughly humbled spirit… All of God's resources will be made available to the soul that is humble enough to be able to receive them without growing proud because of it.
God blesses each of us up to the level and extent of what it is safe for Him to do. If you do not get a blessing, it is because it is not safe for you to have one. If our heavenly Father were to let your unhumbled spirit win a victory in His holy war, you would snatch the crown for yourself, and in the next battle you would fall a victim. He keeps you low for your own safety!
When a man is sincerely humble and never tries to take the credit or the praise, there is scarcely any limit to what God will do for him.
In other words, to go high… we must go low first!
“Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.” Psalms 131:1
- Rev. Dale M. Glading, President
