Day 25           Read: I Peter 5:5—11
         
         Why did Jesus die?
         
              To save you from sin, death and Hell indeed.
              But for what?         
         If you are saved from damnation, what then?
         
              Can you still go on thinking and living
              like the child of sin you were before?
         
              Jesus saved you not only from damnation
              but for glory. That you might be like Him!
         
         For what other reason does He send His Spirit upon
         us, but to raise us up into His likeness——that we
         might become in our living what His shed blood
         already declares us to be: His brothers!
         
         The first lesson--and until we learn it, how can
         we learn the others--is humility.
         
                 “Blessed are the poor in spirit.”
                 “Learn of me, for I am meek and
                  lowly of heart.”
         
         ....not the humility of “feeling” or pretense, but
         the humility of walking and living.
         
         May His gracious Spirit find a way into us that He
         may teach our stubborn wills to break before the
         Wi11 of God
                .....so that clothed in His humility we
                     may with simplicity, and without
                     fuss, become servants one of another
                     and “each esteem the other better
                      than himself”.