Staying humble and broken means that a living sacrifice should not crawl off the altar.
I hear this, but I also hear the lifting up and being made whole. Not by anything which we have done, but by his mercy we are healed.
Lev 26:13
I
am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
Psa 11:7
For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
Psa 37:37
Mark the perfect
man, and behold the upright: for the end of
that man
is peace.
Ecc 7:29
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Act 14:8
And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:
Act 14:9
The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
Act 14:10
Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.
There is a difference between an upright heart and a heart of arrogance.
I don't think man is capable of walking upright of his own will. I believe it is God's spirit which lifts man up and makes him walk upright.
But when we try to lift ourselves up in righteousness it becomes polluted like taking a chisel to a stone, arrogant. As if our hand upon it can improve it.
Exo 20:25
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
If we are that altar on which we bring our sacrifices to, then anything we do to try to improve what God has already made perfect and upright by his hand, is flawed. We can't perfect that which God has perfected.
I think the problem is, that we can't see the finished product God has created for us to become. We see the work in progress and try to improve it ourselves.
I hear, walk in it..
2Jo 1:4
I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
2Jo 1:5
And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
2Jo 1:6
And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
What is it that we should walk "after" .. after as in follow, seek? And then the walk in it. Do it.
Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened.
Deu 4:29
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find
him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
Pro 8:17
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Luk 11:9
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
I believe being humble is good, but being broken... in what way?
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