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Humility: The Flower Which Will Adorn Any Garden.

In Thoughts. on April 23, 2012 at 12:06 pm

Too flabby, too fat,

Too frizzy, too flat,

Too tall, too short,

Not enough.

We all have our things we wish wouldn’t be;

So we trade in our true beauty for a false humility.

Oh, she’s so gorgeous, woe is me.

I could never carry myself as confidently.

Oh, she’s so sociable, woe is me.

I could never make friends as easily.

Oh, she’s so talented, woe is me.

I could never be everything that she could be.

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STOP IT. Be quiet.

I have heard enough.

Now it’s my turn to speak.

I am the one who designed you.

It’s me you are doubting.

I am the one who created you.

It is me you are insulting.

I am the one who tasked and equipped you for such a time as this.

It’s me you are rejecting.

It’s me, my dear–my darling and daughter

Whose heart you continually break.

Why won’t you just believe me when I call you MINE?

“We do God more honor by believing what He has said about Himself [and ourselves] and having the courage to come boldly to the throne of grace than by hiding in self-conscious humility among the tress of the garden.” -AW Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy, p. 155

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