3.10.11

Revelation 4:11

"You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they were created
and have their being."


Dear friend,

God has recently placed a resource in my life that has both convicted and encouraged me to be more like Jesus. Scripture will continue to be the focus, as it is truly our Daily Bread, and for the next few weeks on Tuesdays and Thursdays I will also be quoting parts of the book "Humility The Beauty of Holiness" by Andrew Murray. My hope is that you will be impacted in a similar fashion. I encourage you to read the book if you so desire, even if you have read it previously, which is in the public domain: http://manybooks.net/titles/murrayaother08Humility.html. Please feel free to e-mail us your thoughts or post any feedback on our blog (link below) as to how God is working in your life.

With regard to our verse today, "As truly as God by his power once created, so truly that same power must God every moment maintain. The creature has not only to look back to the orgin and first beginning of existence, and acknowledge that it there owes everything to God; its chief care, its highest virtue, its only happiness, now and through all eternity, is to present itself an empty vessel, in which God can dwell and manifest His power and goodness".1

May you live today with full regard to our Lord and God who created all things by his will and maintains that creation in power and majesty. Help us, Father, to lift our eyes up today...to gain perspective to see your beauty and power in all you have created in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Let us present ourselves to you as empty vessels that you may richly dwell within each of us.

In Christ,
Mike

1 Andrew Murray, Humility the Beauty of Holiness (IndoEuropean Publishing, 2009)