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Be Transformed by Christ’s Example
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” —1 Peter 5:5
A battle rages within every one of us every day. It’s the clash between our sense of stubborn self-sufficiency and God’s call to recognize that we’re really nothing without Him. It’s pride versus humility. And it’s a fight we can’t win without looking repeatedly to Christ and the cross. C. J. Mahaney raises a battle cry to daily, diligently, and deliberately weaken our greatest enemy (pride) and cultivate our greatest friend (humility). His thorough examination clarifies misconceptions, revealing the truth about why God detests pride and turns His active attention to the humble. Because pride is never passive, defeating it demands an intentional attack. The blessing that follows is God’s abundant favor.
“This is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit.”
—Isaiah 66:2, esv
God clearly states that He is drawn to the humble. He’s also clear that He opposes the proud. These two, humility and pride, cannot coexist. Where one is fostered, the other is defeated.
Which will you pursue?
C. J. Mahaney paints a striking picture of the daily battle quietly raging within every Christian and asks whether you will passively accommodate the enemy of your soul, pride, or actively cultivate your best friend, humility. When you acknowledge the deception of pride and intentionally humble yourself, you become free to savor abundant mercies and unlikely graces. You will find a new life is yours—a life God richly favors. A God-glorifying life you don’t want to miss.
“C. J. Mahaney is not humble. At least, that’s what he’ll tell you. And that’s one reason he’s so well qualified to write this book.”
Mark E. Dever
Senior pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church
Author, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church
“A much-needed wake-up call on this important subject. I highly recommend this book.”
Jerry Bridges
Author of The Pursuit of Holiness
“This is the right book from the right man at the right time.”
R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Story Behind the Book
“Given pride’s pervasive presence in my life, I come to this book in holy fear, yet inspired by God’s promises to be humble and sobered by his warnings to the proud (Isaiah 66:2b, 1 Peter 5:5b). Scripture reveals to us that, while pride was the first and most serious sin, God is decisively drawn to humility and is specifically supportive of the humble. Only Christ has fully obeyed Isaiah 66:2b (“This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word”), yet He did so as our representative! How marvelous that in our daily battle against pride we can rely on God’s grace, through the gospel, and thus bring honor and glory to God.” —C. J. Mahaney
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Kathy Powers
reviewed Humility: True Greatness on February 19, 2012
Humility: True Greatness
I'm going to hazard a guess that the people you respect most in life are humble. Understated, encouraging, gracious individuals can't seem to fly under the radar as much as they'd like because people are drawn to them. They're the best leaders, servants, friends, spouses, and parents.
The book is divided into three parts.
C.J. Mahaney defines what humility is and isn't in the first part of the book, makes a case for Christ being the humble answer to sinful pride in the second, and gives strategy on the pursuit of true humility in the last part.
His question is not if you have pride, it's where it exists, and how it's being expressed in your life. That's because at the root of all sin is pride -- when human beings aspire to God's status and refuse to acknowledge their dependence on Him. Mahaney drives home a desperate NEED for a cross-centered life by pointing out Jesus' ransom -- a divine rescue for an undeserving people -- and the patient way he responded to many forms of pride in the Gospels.
I had a "Is this me?" moment when I came to a passage the described life without Christ's ransom. "You would be self-sufficient, seeking to cultivate self-confidence for the purpose of self-glorification." Ouch. But luckily for me, Mahaney also had some good advice that I'll pass on.
1.) Reflect on the wonders of the cross
2.) Admit dependence on God every day
3.) Study the attributes of God (it will give you a healthy view of who you are compared to who He is.)
4.) Grace leave no room for self-congratulation, so embrace it.
5.) Laugh!
6.) Thankfulness=being more aware of grace than my sin.
7.) Correction and intentional accountability will keep you from being hardened, but give you a chance to be encouraged and encourage others in loving God and others.
As a closing note, one of my favorite parts was Mahaney's note that sleep is a beautiful picture of how helpless we are. Every single day, we accept God's gift of sleep and our dependence on him to face the next day --- His mercies are new every morning.
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