"Let us look at our lives in the light of this experience [in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10] and see whether we gladly glory in weakness, whether we take pleasure, as Paul did, in injuries, in necessities, in distresses. Yes, let us ask whether we have learned to regard a reproof, just or unjust, a reproach from friend or enemy, an injury, or trouble, or difficulty into which others bring us, as above all an opportunity of proving how Jesus is all to us, how our own pleasure or honor are nothing, and how humiliation is in very truth what we take pleasure in. It is indeed blessed, the deep happiness of heaven, to be so free from self that whatever is said of us or done to us is lost and swallowed up in the thought that Jesus is all.”
-- Andrew Murray, Humility: The Beauty of Holiness, page 83.
HT: Ray Ortlund
2 comments:
Doug, thanks for posting this. Its been a difficult month on many fronts, and I've found myself whining and complaining. This post is a two-by-four to the fourhead. Simple clichet - it's not about me. Thanks for the reminder.
JC
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