{"id":1146,"date":"2014-09-29T09:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2018-06-07T16:50:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T16:50:53","slug":"deepest-humblings-in-the-presence-of-the-highest-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Deepest Humblings in the Presence of the Highest One"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAs we draw nearer to God,\u201d says Helena Garratt, \u201cand better understand His ways, we learn to make records according to His mind. We begin to count His humiliations, His testings, His chastenings, as our most cherished spiritual experiences. The saint who has had the best year in God\u2019s sight is not the one who has had an easy path, or has achieved the highest success; not the one whose praises filled the lips of men, but the one who has known the deepest humblings in the presence of the Highest One, and who has bowed lowest at His feet. The Lord Jesus said, \u2018Whosoever shall humble himself . . . the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.\u2019


\nThe above quotation is taken from pages 81-82 in Royal Insignia, written and compiled by Edwin and Lillian Harvey. John Newton echoed the same sentiment a few pages further on:
\n\u201cOne great cause of our frequent conflict is that we have a secret desire to be rich, and it is the Lord\u2019s design to make us poor: we want to gain an ability of doing something, and He suits His dispensations to convince us that we can do nothing. We want a stock in ourselves, and He would have us absolutely dependent upon Him. So far as we are content to be weak that His power may be magnified in us, so far shall we make our enemies know that we are strong, though we ourselves shall never be directly sensible that we are so. Only by comparing what we are with the opposition we stand against, we may come to a comfortable conclusion that the Lord worketh mightily in us (Psa. 41:11). Ibid, p. 86<\/p>\n

Then learn to scorn the praise of men,
\nAnd learn to lose with God;
\nFor Jesus won the world through shame,
\nAnd beckons thee His road.
\nGod\u2019s glory is a wondrous thing,
\nMost strange in all its ways,
\nAnd, of all things on earth, least like
\nWhat men agree to praise.<\/p>\n

As He can endless glory weave
\nFrom what men reckon shame,
\nIn His own world He is content
\nTo play a losing game.
\n\u2014Frederick Faber. Ibid, p. 88<\/em>
\nRoyal Insignia is published by Harvey Christian Publishers and is available in their online Christian Bookstore.
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\u201cAs we draw nearer to God,\u201d says Helena Garratt, \u201cand better understand His ways, we learn to make records according to His mind. We begin to count His humiliations, His testings, His chastenings, as our most cherished spiritual experiences. The saint who has had the best year in God\u2019s sight is not the one who […]<\/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":[377,378,379,376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146"}],"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=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harveycp.vitelline.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}