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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Matthew 11:29. Be clothed with humility, for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God. that he may exalt you in due time. 1 Peter 5:6. Judges 9:13.
Such as are haughty and self-conceited, rush against the mighty hand of God, and destroy themselves; but those that bow and humble under it, will be protected by the same. Whatever skill of learning and demonstration we may acquire in the schools of human sciences, if we do not learn to be lowly in heart, and dead to the world, the scripture does not allow us to be truly wise and enlightened, but calls us poor, blind, miserable, worldly students of glory. Proverbs 11:2. (1 Cor. first and second chapters.) Therefore St. Austin says, "the more a man dies to this world, the more he is enlightened."
Is there ambition in my heart?
Search gracious God and see,
Or do I act a haughty part?
Lord, I appeal to thee.
I charge my thoughts be humble still,
And all my carriage mild;
Content, my Father, with thy will,
And quiet as a child.
The patient soul, the lowly mind,
Shall have a large reward;
Let saints in sorrow lie resigned,
And trust a faithful Lord,
