Mat 7:14 -Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
The way to that secret door is down, lower and lower and lower still. How can I go lower still? For my Lord loveth humility.
Remember the limbo game? At first everybody can just walk underneath the pole, and there are alot of players starting out. But as the pole lowers, there get to be fewer and fewer. The final competitors will be slim, agile and flexible, very strong, and have exquisite balance.
In the limbo game, you must glide underneath the pole without touching the bar and without falling.
In life, you must stay under the radar of adoration, exaltation, showing off, ursurping authority, living large, being in control, or exuding "self" in any way. But we must also not fall on the floor, wallowing in self-hatred nor failing to uphold our service to God.
It takes great balance to be low enough to not defend yourself when you're offended or when your rights have been violated, and yet not so low that you cast yourself down.
Many start out, but few there be that find that place of humility that is a godly choice to put on humility, trusting God, and not just a self-defeating mindset of self-abasement.
2Co 4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
2Co 4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2Co 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
See MoreThe way to that secret door is down, lower and lower and lower still. How can I go lower still? For my Lord loveth humility.
Remember the limbo game? At first everybody can just walk underneath the pole, and there are alot of players starting out. But as the pole lowers, there get to be fewer and fewer. The final competitors will be slim, agile and flexible, very strong, and have exquisite balance.
In the limbo game, you must glide underneath the pole without touching the bar and without falling.
In life, you must stay under the radar of adoration, exaltation, showing off, ursurping authority, living large, being in control, or exuding "self" in any way. But we must also not fall on the floor, wallowing in self-hatred nor failing to uphold our service to God.
It takes great balance to be low enough to not defend yourself when you're offended or when your rights have been violated, and yet not so low that you cast yourself down.
Many start out, but few there be that find that place of humility that is a godly choice to put on humility, trusting God, and not just a self-defeating mindset of self-abasement.
2Co 4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
2Co 4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
2Co 4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
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