I don’t know about you, but God, over the years, has worked overtime on me about my pride. So I find much of what Andrew Murray has to say about humility and pride from his book simply entitled, “Humility” applies to me. Below is one of his many powerful statements in this book.
Pride has its root and strength in a terrible spiritual power, outside of us as well as within us. We must confess it, deplore it, and be aware of its Satanic origin. This may lead us to despair of ever conquering it or casting it out. But it will also lead us all the sooner to that supernatural power in which alone our deliverance is to be found – the redemption of the Lamb of God. The hopeless struggle against the workings of self and pride within us may, indeed, become still more hopeless as we think of the power of darkness behind it all. But eventually, we will better realize and accept the power and life outside of ourselves – the humility of heaven, as brought down by the Lamb of God to cast out Satan and his pride.
-Andrew Murray
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