The Fourth Chapter
We Must Walk Before God in Humility and Truth (part two)
The Voice of Christ
I shall teach you those things which are right and pleasing to Me. (listen) Consider your sins with great displeasure and sorrow, and never think yourself to be someone because of your good works. (my pride!!!) You are truly a sinner. You are subject to many passions and entangled in them. Of yourself you always tend to nothing. You fall quickly, are quickly overcome, quickly troubled, and quickly undone. You have nothing in which you can glory, but you have many things for which you should think yourself vile, for you are much weaker than you can comprehend. Hence, let none of the things you do seem great to you. Let nothing seem important or precious or desirable except that which is everlasting. (But, what about my family...) Let the eternal truth please you above all things, and let your extreme unworthiness always displease you. Fear nothing, abhor nothing, and fly (escape) nothing as you do your own vices and sins; these should be more unpleasant for you than any material losses.
This is very convicting...especially since I deal with pride and I talk too much...and listen poorly!!!
THY WILL BE DONE!!!+JMJ+
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