The God Who Gives Grace to the Humble

Are you humble O Christian? You should be, for by your very profession of faith you declare that you were not high, exalted, and worthy of salvation, but poor, blind miserable and brought low by sin. Here we see by means of a parable, that humility and Christianity must go hand in hand, or we must wonder if humility is lacking, is the faith that makes it flourish there at all?

'Art thou delighted when thou hearest of thy esteem with men, and much dejected when thou hearest that they slight thee? Dost thou love those best that honor thee, and think meanly of them that do not, though they be otherwise men of godliness and honesty? … A proud man makes himself his god, and sets up himself as his idol; how, then, can his affections be set on God? how can he possibly have his heart in heaven? Invention and memory may possibly furnish his tongue with humble and heavenly expressions, but in his spirit there is no more heaven than there is humility.” – Richard Baxter