Have Small Thoughts About Yourself, but Great Thoughts About God and About His Work With You!

Have Small Thoughts About Yourself, but Great Thoughts About God and About His Work With You!

Because He is a very great and good and capable Master! He creates an amazing work even out of very weak subjects!

You are committing a disastrous mistake when you think it is virtuous to believe that God cannot do much in and through you. You are mistaking God for yourself. Instead of thinking lowly thoughts about yourself, you think lowly thoughts about God, which is something totally different from virtue!!!

If we should carry out the work ourselves, it would be absolutely right to think that way. But we cannot make a bigger mistake! It is He Himself—the unspeakably great and good Master— who will carry out the work. And He can.

“Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.” Ps. 37:5. “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” 1 Thess. 5:24.

We can say that the greatest difficulty that exists is to believe that God is as good as He really is. We have no problem believing that God is good and that He is so good as to forgive us our sins; but to believe that He is so abundantly good that He will let us partake of His own divine nature, that He will give us more than victory over all known sin, etc., etc., and also use us and entrust us with great things, that is very difficult to believe. But what are we to do? Believe the Scriptures! Believe the promises! For example: Colossians 1:28; Colossians 1:11; Colossians 1:22; Philippians 4:13; Philippians 4:19; Philippians 2:15; Philippians 1:6; Ephesians 6:13; Ephesians 1:19; Ephesians 2:6-7; Ephesians 3:19-20. Let us stop at this last verse: “That you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” Yes, who believes that God both can and will do such great things? One is tempted to think that to believe such a thing is to be proud—in other words, thinking that having great thoughts about God’s goodness and His power is to be proud or having lowly thoughts about God is to be humble.

No—then you are getting mixed up. You are mistaking God’s work for your own work. Correct this way of thinking!