HUMILITY!

It is a beautiful Monday morning, and my heart is filled with praise to our wonderful Lord!!
In our mid-week Prayer and Praise service on Wednesday evenings, our pastor has been giving a devotional on different character traits.  Last week, the character trait was "Humility,"   This illustration that he gave spoke to my heart,  and I asked him if I could share it on my Blog.

     "In 1784, Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to the son of Cotton Mather, sharing an incident he had with his father when he was 18 years old.  He writes,

          He received me in his library, and, on my taking leave, showed me a shorter way out of the
          house through a narrow passage, which was crossed by a beam overhead.  We were still   
          talking as I withdrew, he accompanying me behind, and I turning partly towards him, when
          he said hastily, 'Stoop, Stoop!'  I did not understand him till I felt my head hit against the
          beam.  He was a man that never missed an occasion of giving instruction, and upon this he
          said to me, 'You are young, and have the world before you: STOOP as you go through it,
          and you may miss many hard thumps.'

Franklin then adds --
      This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people, by their carrying their heads too high." 

Let us remember the solemn warning in Proverbs 16:18 -- "Pride goeth before destruction, and an
haughty spirit before a fall."
And let us embrace the sweet command in Micah 6:8 -- ". . . .and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God."