{"id":9907,"date":"2026-01-02T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=9907"},"modified":"2025-12-27T07:45:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T12:45:58","slug":"loss-of-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=9907","title":{"rendered":"Loss of Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211226_104035-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211226_104035-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9322\" width=\"639\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211226_104035-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211226_104035-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211226_104035-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211226_104035-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20211226_104035-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me:  Just read this.  Turn to God&#8217;s light and your shadows will fall behind you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prodigal:  Amen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is from the book Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.  It was when the now fallen angels began to look upon themselves with self-complacency that they were led to disobedience, and were cast down from the light of heaven into outer darkness.  Even so it was, when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk.  In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation is the gate and the birth, and the curse of hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hence it follows that nothing can be our redemption, but the restoration of the &#8216;lost humility, the original and true relation of the creature to its God.  And so Jesus came to bring humility back to earth, to make us partakers of it, and by it to save us.  In heaven He humbled Himself to become man.  The humility we see in Him possessed Him in heaven; it brought Him, He brought it, from there.  Here on earth &#8220;He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death&#8221;; His humility gave His death its value, and so became our redemption.  And now the salvation He imparts is nothing less and nothing else than a communication of His own life and death, His own disposition and spirit, His own humility, as the ground and root of His relation to God and His redeeming work.  Jesus Christ took the place and fulfilled the destiny of man, as a creature, by His life of perfect humility.  His humility is our salvation.  His salvation is our humility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. Genesis 3:6 (KJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: Just read this. Turn to God&#8217;s light and your shadows will fall behind you. Prodigal: Amen! 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