{"id":1142,"date":"2014-09-29T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T09:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2018-06-07T16:50:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T16:50:44","slug":"walk-as-he-walked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1142","title":{"rendered":"Walk as He Walked."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Insignia, compiled by Edwin and Lillian Harvey, contains many inspiring quotations on varied aspects of humility which, as the title suggests, is the badge of every true believer in Christ. The following excerpts are on the subject of nothingness, a subject none too popular in today\u2019s culture but indispensible, nevertheless, to those of us who strive to follow in our Master\u2019s footsteps.<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69da0ec9638bc4035911898' value='69da0ec9638bc4035911898'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69da0ec9638bc4035911898' value='Continue reading...'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69da0ec9638bc4035911898' value='Show Less'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69da0ec9638bc4035911898' ><\/p>\n<p>Thus though worn, and tried, and tempted,<br \/>\nGlorious calling, saint, is thine;<br \/>\nLet the Lord but find thee emptied,<br \/>\nLiving branch in Christ, the Vine!<br \/>\nVessels of the world\u2019s despising,<br \/>\nVessels weak, and poor, and base,<br \/>\nBearing wealth God\u2019s heart is prizing,<br \/>\nGlory from Christ\u2019s blessed face.<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69da0ec963d0a2003922070' value='69da0ec963d0a2003922070'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69da0ec963d0a2003922070' value='Continue reading...'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69da0ec963d0a2003922070' value='Show Less'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69da0ec963d0a2003922070' ><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69da0ec963d0a2003922070' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#cc1818;;\" href='#'>Continue reading...<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh to be but emptier, lowlier,<br \/>\nMean, unnoticed, and unknown,<br \/>\nAnd to God a vessel holier,<br \/>\nFilled with Christ and Christ alone!<br \/>\nNaught of earth to cloud the glory,<br \/>\nNaught of self the light to dim,<br \/>\nTelling forth His wondrous story,<br \/>\nEmptied, to be filled with Him.<br \/>\n<em>\u2013Paul Gerhardt, Royal Insignia, p. 108<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We are nothing unless we abide in God; we can do nothing apart from Christ. We know and admit this as a doctrine, but to realize it as a fact, painful and humbling experience is often needed. But in this lowest humiliation is our true and highest exaltation. God takes all things from us that we may turn again to Him as our sure Portion; He makes us feel our weakness, our poverty, our ignorance, in order that we may return to Him.\u2014Adolph Saphir in The Hidden Life, quoted in Royal Insignia, p. 112<\/p>\n<p>Beware of too sublime a sense<br \/>\nOf your own worth and consequence.<br \/>\nThe man who dreams himself so great,<br \/>\nAnd his importance of such weight,<br \/>\nThat all around in all that\u2019s done<br \/>\nMust move and act for him alone,<br \/>\nWill learn in school of tribulation<br \/>\nThe folly of his expectation.<br \/>\n<em>\u2014William Cowper. Royal Insignia, p. 114<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Royal Insignia is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their Online Christian Bookstore.<br \/>\n<\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69da0ec9638bc4035911898' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#cc1818;;\" href='#'>Continue reading...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Insignia, compiled by Edwin and Lillian Harvey, contains many inspiring quotations on varied aspects of humility which, as the title suggests, is the badge of every true believer in Christ. The following excerpts are on the subject of nothingness, a subject none too popular in today\u2019s culture but indispensible, nevertheless, to those of us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[373,374,375,376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}