Samuel Brengle, who was an early Salvation Army official, was once introduced as the “Great Dr. Brengle.” He later wrote in his diary, “If I appear great in their eyes, the Lord is most graciously helping me to see how absolutely nothing I am without Him, and helping me to keep little in my own eyes.
A man can counterfeit love, he can counterfeit faith, he can counterfeit hope and all the other graces, but it is very difficult to counterfeit humility.
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899)
Humility is a word that characterized our Lord while he was here on the earth, and it should characterize us.
Rom 12:3
For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.
Whales really do communicate with each other. One whale sounded the following caution to his dear mate:
“Better watch it; when you get to the top and start to blow, that’s when you get harpooned!”
What’s true at sea is also true in our world.
Think about it.
Gary