As we begin to wrap up this message, we must engage today's heart cry. Our heart cry is, or at least it should be, “Lord, keep me small and humble.”
“They that know God, will be humble, and they that know themselves
cannot be proud.”1
(John Flavel)
A little boy came to his father one day and said, “Dad, I
measured myself, and I’m eight
feet, four inches tall.”
His father said, “Son, you know you’re not eight feet tall.”
“Yes, I am,” the boy replied. “I measured myself, and I’m
more than eight rulers tall.”
The father went to see what
the boy was measuring himself with and discovered it was a
six-inch ruler. You can always get taller if you’re using the
wrong gauge.
A lot of us think more of ourselves than we ought to think because
we’re measuring ourselves against the wrong people.
We’re comparing ourselves with each other instead of with
God. We need to measure ourselves against the right
standard.2
(Tony Evans)
1
Pet. 5:6
Bring your
heart cry to Jesus.
1 http://www.preceptaustin.org/james_46_commentary.htm
(accessed 3.2.16)
2 Evans, Tony. The Battle Is the Lord's. Chicago, IL: Moody Press, n.d.
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